One Sentence Testimony

I heard a great sermon yesterday about how to answer some of the difficult questions people ask of Christians. Like how is God speaking to Jesus from heaven after he is baptized if Jesus is also God? Is God speaking to himself? That was from an 8 year old.

Takes a bit to answer that and some of us would be perplexed to try and answer logically. Some things we believe by faith are just that and in some cases have an incredibly difficult answer if we even have one at all.
However, the greatest answer we can give about our faith and why we believe is our personal testimony of how God has worked in our lives. Even better is the tag that draws people into asking more questions.

For example here are a few phrases in the Bible, one from John 9: One thing I do know, I was blind but now I can see. Or from the Parable of the Prodigal son: this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!

Maybe yours is all I know is that I was an addict and he made me clean. Or I was in the darkness and he showed me the light. Or possibly, I had cancer and now I am cancer free. One sentence that inspires a conversation which answers that most difficult question, "Why do you believe what you do?" The simplest answers reduce the most difficult questions to answerable.

A couple that a man named David gave in Psalm 40 work as well: I waited patiently for the Lord: he turned to me and heard my cry. Or even better is the next verse: He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire: he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm pace to stand.

Does that answer the question when we are confused how to answer? Not directly, but it gives the Why of Why I believe. And then you may answer that 8 year old with this: God is God and I am not - who am I to tell him he can't speak to himself? Or part a sea, or heal a leper, raise a man from being dead or raise himself from the dead, or make that blind man see, or any of the other thousands of miraculous things he did?

I don't know much, but I know in my heart God did it!