Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the Lord your God sends you to us.
The Lord is a true and faithful witness that God is real.
How that works is personal and no one can tell you it is not real if and when God reveals Himself to you.
As an angry teen I saw myself following the same path that my oldest brother took to find himself kicked out of our home and forced to live elsewhere at the age of sixteen. I did not want to fall to that same fate so one Sunday morning, in church, I prayed to God for the first time.
“I don’t want to be like this!”
I wasn’t sure it was a prayer, I didn’t even address my thoughts to God, or Jesus, or the Lord. It was more like self-talk, admitting how I felt. It did not feel like repentance, it was an acknowledgement of helplessness.
O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
While my prayer was not classic, it was enough for God to hear me and in that very moment my anger left me and it could only have been done by God.
God is real. I knew it but that was all I knew in that moment. That was my moment and it is personal and I have not heard anyone tell me that their experience in discovering God being real was the same.
Is knowing that God is real enough?
Now, sixty years later, I have to answer no.