12th September 2025

Leap of Faith

"Before Abraham was, I AM.”

John 8:58

Today's Bible Reading: John 8:48-58.

An American newspaper, “The Saturday Evening Post” once published a landmark interview with the great physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein. His response to questions of Jesus Christ as a historical figure are breathtaking. He stated, “I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene … No one can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”

No one knows whether Einstein ever received Christ as Saviour, but near the end of his life he said, “If you ask me to prove what I believe, I can’t … The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a leap … and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.”

But we cannot rely on the testimony of others over the testimony of Christ Himself who said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). This leap of faith is given when we speak the name of Jesus in sincere truth, realising that we are bound to a dark eternity without His forgiveness, grace, and mercy.

Regardless of the knowledge gathered, no one can know Jesus Christ without taking the certain leap of faith that salvation comes only from Him. In Hebrews 11:1, the Bible says: “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Prayer:  Divine Lord God, I thank You that You are the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and my God too, and that because of the Lord Jesus and His work on the cross for me. Amen.