Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
Knowing in Your Knower
Today's episode explores what I call "knowing in our knower" – that deep, core certainty believers have that sometimes defies easy explanation.. God often works through us, providing insights and stories tailored to each unique conversation about faith. Whether you're confident in discussing your beliefs or find yourself hesitating when challenged, this episode provides a practical tool for your spiritual conversations.
Listen each weekday morning for more reflections to help start your day right.
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right. I am Danny Mac and I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back and relax for the next five minutes as I help you start your day by starting right. Hey, good morning everyone Today. I want to start off by asking you this If you were in a conversation with someone that you sort of knew, but they weren't a really close friend or anything, and they said to you I don't believe God exists, what would you say to them?
Speaker 1:How would you try to prove to them that God actually does exist? See, the situation for many of us is that we'd really believe that God exists. In fact, it goes beyond simple belief. We know it, and we know it not only just in our heads, but I call it knowing in our knower. We know it deep in the depth of us, down in the part of us, that it really is at our core. We know deep within us that God exists, and we can know it in our knower and still not be able to explain it to somebody else, and that can be frustrating sometimes, both for us and the person we're talking to, that's trying to understand why we believe what we believe or where we're coming from.
Speaker 1:Well, I want to tell you a story this morning that I think will help you a little bit. This story is about a man named Bob who went to his regular barber shop to get his hair cut and get his beard trimmed. He'd been going to the same barber now for a number of years, so he knew the barber, but just as an acquaintance. But they always had good conversations together. So, as usual, as the barber began to do his work, they had an ongoing conversation about football and family and hockey and all kinds of things. Finally, the conversation got around to talking about God and the barber said I don't believe that God exists. Well, bob looked at him and said why do you say that? The barber stopped clipping at the moment and stepped back and said well, you just have to go out into the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? Would there be people starving and suffering all around the world? If God existed, there wouldn't be any pain or suffering or pandemic, there wouldn't be all kinds of political unrest, there wouldn't be racism, there wouldn't be any of those things. I simply can't imagine that a loving God would allow anything like that to happen. Bob thought for a moment. He didn't respond right away because he was uncertain of how to put into words what he was thinking and, most of all, he was a little bit shy about getting into an argument. He really didn't want to make a scene there in the barber shop. The barber finished his job. Bob left.
Speaker 1:Just as he was walking away from the barber shop, bob saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked pretty dirty and pretty unkept. Bob stopped, turned around and went back into the barber shop again and he said to his barber friend you know what? Barbers don't exist. The barber looked at him and said how can you say that I'm here, I'm a barber and I just worked on you? Bob said no, you say that I'm here, I'm a barber and I just worked on you. Bob said no, barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty, long hair and untrimmed beards like that man outside. The barber laughed and said oh, but barbers do exist. What happens is the people don't come in to me. Exactly said Bob. That's the point.
Speaker 1:God also exists. What happens is that people don't go to him. Isn't that the truth for a lot of people? They look at all the negative things in the world and they say, hey, you know, if there really was a God, none of this negative stuff would be happening. Everybody would be living in peace and getting along, there would be no sickness, there would be no sorrow, there certainly wouldn't be people dying from a pandemic. But the truth is God exists. People are just not relying on Him to help them and to be in control Over.
Speaker 1:In 2 Timothy, chapter 4 and verse 2, it tells us that we are to be prepared in season and out of season. We're to be ready to give an answer to people who want to know, want to know about who God is and God wants and how he works and where is he if he's real. And so that challenge is there for all of us to be ready at all times to be able to say what we know in our knower about our God, to let people know that he is real, that he is real in our lives and that he's important to us. And often God will work in us to give us insights and ideas and stories that we can use. That will help to relate to the person who's asking the question, just like Bob did with the story about the man who needed a haircut. God bless you. Ask God to use you, expect him to open doors for you. Be blessed, my friends. Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday, right here on Starting Right with Danny Mac.
