Believe into

 Believe Into

 

God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

JOHN 3.16

 

Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.”

JOHN 6.29

 

The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me.

JOHN 16.9

 

You can say that you believe an airplane will fly. But to live that belief is to fly in one. You can say that you believe it is important to exercise. But if you don’t exercise, it is proof that you don’t really believe it is important. It’s not that different with faith. It’s easy to say that you believe in Jesus. But the proof that you really believe is that you entrust your life to him and depend on him to satisfy you and take care of you.

Many people think that believing in Jesus is simply agreeing with a list of facts about who Jesus is and what he did on the cross. But that is just the beginning. Belief also involves accepting the truth about Jesus for yourself, then entrusting your whole self to Christ.

Actually, in the original language John wrote in, he didn’t record Jesus as saying we should “believe in” him. Our Bibles say it that way because it would sound weird to our ears for the verse to read what Jesus literally said. Jesus’ actual words were that we have to “believe into” him. John 1.12 equates “believing into” Jesus with receiving him. In John 6.35 Jesus says that believing into him is like coming to him to satisfy the hunger and thirst at the core of our beings. To believe into Jesus is to enter into Jesus as a new way of living life.