John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

Seeing Jesus do miracles is seeing He is LORD. It is God showing Himself to us. I’ve always thought that alone was enough to believe. Apparently I was wrong. Note that in the end, verse 6:66 many of these that followed Jesus stopped following Him.

It is never my intent to dissuade anyone from listening to Jesus, for any reason. It is however a matter of self-examination to know why you seek Jesus. Is it because you see Him as Lord or is it because you want Him to ease your suffering? I do not have that answer for anyone but myself.

Jesus reveals some hard truths about why He came to earth and what was asked of those who would stand with Him. Some admitted those were hard sayings, some stayed, many left. The reasons why people stopped following Jesus are private and personal, just like why some stayed. It was personal.

Jesus introduced Himself to me decades ago. Fifty years later, thousands of passages read, dozens of pastors, teachers and theologians, I have to admit there is still much to learn about my Lord. I do not follow Jesus because of what He can do for me, nor for what I know.

Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

That’s me, the hope for tomorrow, that God will reveal Himself again and again. I get to see His mercy, His grace, His loving hand at work in the land of the living. He is God, He has shown Himself to me and that alone is enough for me to keep following Jesus.

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

What is the difference between a true God and a false god?

If you know anything about world belief systems, then you know that people throughout the world worship many gods. The issue of who and how many worship any god of any religion or sect does not create the existence of a true God. Your understanding, belief nor faith creates the existence of a true God. A demonstration of power does not create a true God.

The One True God is self-sustaining and needs nothing to be God. God like truth does not need your understanding, your belief, your faith, nor your acceptance to be God. What the True God has done is revealed Himself to His creation with purpose, with will and with design.

How I know this God is through truth. He has made promises and He has kept promises. I have yet to see all His promises come into existence in this life and one or two I will not see come true until I die or am translated. The fact that I have not seen them yet does not make them untrue. He has yet to fail me in any promise that has been made. He has been true to His Word. His Word is Truth.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

My evidence is the faith given in promises kept and fosters hope that the remaining promises will be kept.

No other god has done that.