When I was first Saved, I had a lot of uncertainty about the divinity of Jesus. I had been introduced to the Bible by some very nice Jehovah's Witnesses, who do not believe so. It made a deep impression on me. As I continued to be exposed to Trinitarian doctrine in my new church, the conflict began to build in me to a tremendous point, and I had no peace.
I counseled with my pastor on it, and he wisely did not pressure me with proof texts. I kept mulling over it, quite in despair, and finally realized that I was incapable of making the determination. That led to me, in faith, giving it to the Lord, deciding that He was able to show me what I needed to know. It would have to be from Him, because I had heard all sides, and had gotten to the place where I could not trust man on this, one way or the other. This was a great release for me. I had peace again, and was free to worship the Lord based on what I knew, not on what I didn't know but was supposed to believe. The Lord loves a trusting heart.
It took about 9 months or so, but as I kept reading, meditating and praying, the inexorable answer to my question began to dawn on me. All the texts point to it, though some admittedly are obscure. Jesus is indeed LORD.
But the point is this. I was saved before I made that confession. Hebrews 13 tells us that Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith. God is not sitting there with a catechism to see if we pass the test. His concern is always the heart, not the superficial head. If you give Him your heart, He will work the rest out for you. I knew that Jesus was God's one and only way of salvation, and that was enough to get me in the door. The rest came later. We need to accept people where they are and let God work on them on His timetable.
Some people, of course, try to take hard cases to belittle the faith and use doctrinal hair-splitting as an excuse not to believe. The Sadducees did this when they concocted the story about the woman who was sequentially married to seven brothers according to Levrite law. The question was to which one she would be married in the resurrection. But Jesus' answer is telling. Not only did they not understand the nature of the resurrection, in which there won't be marriage, but they were ignorant of the "power of God" - a far more serious problem. They had limited God by trying to fit Him into their bias toward Scripture, and had to come up with sophomoric puzzles to justify their own unbelief. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work now.
If you have a heart for Jesus, come to Him as you are, doubts, uncertainties and all. He well knows how to clean you up. He specializes in that. Ultimately there is no excuse for not coming. He has already done it all, paid it all. The Source of all Love awaits your decision.
