Exodus 7:9 English Standard Version (ESV) “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”

There will be times when preaching the gospel that we are confronted by someone who says “Prove it.”

My answer is “No.”

We are called to preach the gospel, not to prove it. The seed will fall everywhere and not all the ground is ready to receive it. It is not our job to be soil inspectors, taking samples and withholding the gospel if we believe that soil is infertile. 

If they should ask why I believe, now that is a different matter.

My answer is “God revealed Himself to me.”

It is not my job to convince them that I am sane. It is my job to love them no matter what. If I consider sharing the gospel to be an act of love then how I present it is important.

We want people that will engage us in further exploration of who God is and how He works.

Two things will always be available to us in witnessing Christ to others. The first is personal. What has God done for you personally that you could not do for yourself. If you do not have a clear answer to that part of your walk with Jesus, do not make something up just to have an answer.

The second is a proper understanding of the promises of God. People that expect miracles do not understand how God’s promises work. If we cannot explain them properly, don’t try.

“Why would God reveal Himself to you and not to me?”

That is a fair question and it comes down to this: “Who says He hasn’t?”

Most people expect easy answers, clear understanding and some proof before they will commit themselves to anything. The answer to that question has to be discovered within themselves and not everyone is ready to open up their lives to us.

“What is going on in your life?”

Love is interested in others.

Isaiah 13:10 English Standard Version (ESV) For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

God’sWord acknowledges that mankind has attached mythology to His galactic design. He went as far as to even name a few. The issue of mythology is ancient. 

Amos 5:8 English Standard Version (ESV) He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name;

Mythology while ancient is not as ancient as the Ancient of Days.

“As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire. “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom. From Daniel chapter 7

Mankind readily acknowledges myths as if the stars align to control their lives yet refuse to acknowledge the Creator. There is no logical explanation for the acceptance of myths but yet they do.

Micah 5:2 English Standard Version (ESV) But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,  who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

These people can believe that three Magi followed a star but not why they followed the star?

Science observes that the earth rotates on an axis that points to the star Polaris, and fixes on it during a journey around the universe but does not connect that with intelligent design.

Faith tells me we are not a happy accident.

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe.

Math cannot prove what faith has already proven, that God is the designer.