Do you believe?

Time and time again, I have seen people experience God in mountain top ways only to quickly fall back down into the valleys of doubt and despair.  I have witnessed people go to revival services, mission trips, church camps and all kinds of events or circumstances where God was manifested so tangibly He could not be denied.  That spiritual mountain top experience was undeniable.  Shortly after, the fall prevailed.

I have I ask why?  Could it be that doubt trumped belief?  It is a fact that Jesus Christ's manifests himself in ways that we can tangibly experience Him.  Ways this world cannot explain.  God allows this not to create doubt, but belief.  I often wonder, do people doubt their belief?  Do they begin to doubt that mountain top experience?  Did they ever really believe?  Did they really believe it was God or or was it merely just and emotional high?  

Emotional experiences fade and grow faint over time.  Emotional experiences do not necessarily prompt a genuine belief in the cause of Christ.  Emotions can produce nothing more than a thrill, a temporary excitement producing nothing more than a great memory.

Belief is the gateway to life, a life eternal only found in Jesus Christ.  Belief lasts forever not producing a mere "once upon a time" mountain top experience.  Do you believe?

John 20:31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.   

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