What if…It’s such a common question. It’s such a powerful question.
It’s a question I found myself asking a lot lately. I’ve been going through a time of doubt and dryness and I’d often find myself saying, “What if all this Christianity stuff is not true. What if it’s not real?” The implications are huge. If Christianity is not true then there are a lot of good, well-meaning people living for a lie. If it’s not true then I’m a fool for abstaining from living however I please. If there was no God then why do I work so hard at trying to do the “right” thing. Why would I care what the right thing is? If Christianity is not true then life has no point. If Christianity is not true, then why am I here? Who made me? Am I really an act of random chance? Am I a mere accident that happened despite mind-boggling odds? And if life arose, unprompted, from a primordial sea of gas, or through any other medium, who created that matter in the first place? The list of questions that remain unanswered never ends.. Who am I? Why am I here? Who made me? Why? If Christianity is not true…I have no answer.
But out of this arises another question. What if Christianity is true? What if there really is a loving God who, for reasons I can not completely understand, decided to create all of this - decided to create me? What if this God wants nothing more than to have relationship and fellowship with me and with us? What if this God became flesh solely to bridge the gap we created between us and Him? God as flesh? I don’t understand it but…what if? What if my life, your life, their lives, have purpose? What if this life is a mere dress rehearsal for eternity with God?
If Christianity is true (and I believe it is!) then the implications are enormous. If it’s true your life has purpose, to know God and make Him known. If it’s true then the best is yet to come. If it’s true then there is a real REASON to live, a REASON to breathe. If it’s true then there is hope for those of us in bondage to addictions and negative lifestyles. If it’s true there is hope for the person dying of cancer. If it’s true there is hope for the aids orphan in Africa. If it’s true we have a responsibility - share it with those who are unaware of this truth.
Can I ever prove mathematically or physically that God is who the Bible claims He is? Can I ever prove the origin of everything? Can I prove what happens after death? Can I prove that Christianity is true and leave NO room for doubt? No. Of course, nor can you disprove it.
You may sit there and read this and scoff and say, “It’s too unlikely. If I can’t understand it and put it on paper then it can’t be true.”
I will not argue with you nor will I condemn you. I will ask you one thing and one thing only. You say what if it’s not true, I say what if it is…
