If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, and somebody were to ask you, "Why should I believe in God?" what would you have to say? Would you just say, "Because He's real," or could you explain your answer?

Throughout history, most every culture, if not all, has corporately believed that some sort of supreme power or being or beings has watched over them. This belief in a higher power of some sort I believe, is mankind's mostly errant quest to reconnect with God. They may be in denial, but people have the notion of God in their sub-conscious mind and in their heart of hearts they know He is real. Where did the desire to search after God come from? Who put this desire into our hearts, and into our minds? The answer would be God Himself.

"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." Ecclesiastes, 3:11.

The infinite God put eternity into the heart of mankind, but mankind's search for Him is frustrated by his finite limitations. But we can feel Him calling us to Him.

There's an order that can be seen, and a definite pattern to not only the structure of our very bodies, but of the layout of the planet we live on and the universe that we live in. We and this universe exist in such a complex pattern that no one, when they look with honesty, is able to rule out the hand of God in its creation. Charles Darwin said, "The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe with our conscious selves arose through chance seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God." I don't know if it's the chief argument, but it's one of the best ones.

Back as far as I can remember in my life, I always had a sense of right and wrong. We all have it. Some ignore it and some don't. The world calls this a "conscience." Without it, the world would degrade into complete chaos. Where does that sense of right and wrong come from? Who gave it to us? The answer again is God.

God also gave us the Bible. The endurance and popularity of the this very singular book is a testimony to the One who gave it to us. It contains a wealth of information for mankind, unmatched by any other book. It contains prophecies given and fulfilled, and the truth for all to read. Many have tried for thousands of years to destroy and to discredit it, but it's still the best-selling and most widely read book in the history of the world. God has ensured that His Word would survive the generations to speak to people's hearts, and to tell them why they should believe in him. That "why" is a "who."

That "who" is Jesus, the Christ, and He is unique beyond words. He alone claimed to be the only begotten Son of God. Neither Buddah, Mohammed nor Confucius claimed to be God. Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh. Jesus could make the claim because He's the only One who could back it up through the way He lived, which was without sin. He lived in a way the showed men who God was and what men should be. He also backed it up with the way He died, and with how He rose from that death.

He lived in what seemed to the world of His day, an obscure area of a small and seemingly insignificant country, but Jesus has changed countless lives and the whole structure, the very keeping of time has revolved around His life on this earth. He won't ever be forgotten and His Word will never pass away. God the Father made sure that the world would never forget His Son.

God's calling to our hearts and minds, our sense of what is right and what is wrong, the complexity of His creation, the Bible and above all His Son and what He did for us on the Cross are some of the many reasons there are to believe in God. They are evidence that God left for us to know about and that testify to His wonderful existence. It's by His grace that He left these evidences, and when someone asks us, "Why should I believe in God?" we have plenty of ways to answer.