Can We Prove the Truth?

The fact of the matter is we can only prove the truth of God to ourselves. The bottom line is the same bottom line in the parable Jesus told about Lazarus and the rich man: “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead" (Lk. 16:31). That tells it all my friends. The truth is, all you can do is be what God’s Spirit wants to be in you, speak what we have experienced in God, and "let him that is athirst come" (Rev. 22:17). When Jesus had spoken truth and righteousness in the hearing of many, he would often say, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” If we’re showing forth that we are real with God, and we’re praying for people, the rest of it is out of our hands. If someone doesn’t have an ear to hear, and doesn’t follow the drawing from the Lord, or fails to respond to his call; there’s nothing more you or I can do except continue to be faithful ourselves. And we may also want to remember the exhortation of the apostle Paul: “For we walk by faith, not by sight" (II Cor. 5:7). Also another like it by Jesus: "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" (Jn. 7:24). We never know who is going to end up where, so we never have to give up on someone just because it appears that they will never believe or hear. The only person that anyone can ever prove the one reality of God to is themselves. And the only person who can believe in the redeeming grace and power of Jesus Christ for anyone is one’s own self.

The only true reality of God in this world is his Spirit, and the only way anyone receives that reality is by full repentance from sin and faith in Jesus (I Jn. 4:13; Rom. 8:9; Jn. 7:37-39). Period. No one can receive it for someone else, and no one can make someone believe and receive it. To clarify the point that I began with, there has never been a witness of God’s reality and truth that equaled Jesus, and they didn’t believe him! No one in the history of the world has exemplified the love, and power, and holiness, and wisdom, and grace of God like Jesus did; and God’s own people rejected him (Jn. 1:11). He grieved over it, but he didn’t fret. He felt the hurt, but he did not give up his ground with God over it. Neither have any that have ever been faithful. He said, "The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also" (Jn. 15:20). And, "If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub [and they did], how much more shall they call them of his household" (Mat. 10:25)? It’s that simple. There’s a lot of rest in really understanding this because when we know that when we’ve done our part, the remainder is between God and the individual. We can grieve, but we need not fret. We can and should feel the hurt, but if we’re truly in the right vein with God, we can’t give up our own ground in God over it. Many will just never believe Jesus for themselves, and it simply has always been that way. Amen.