Why God?

Why God? Why the Bible? Why Jesus?

Why our God instead of another?  Why are Christians right about the Way and no one else?  Why is Jesus the only way?  Why choose Christianity? What sets that belief apart and above all? Why are we so special??

If you think you're bad for asking any of those questions, well you're not.  Are you the first to ask those questions? That's a negative.  In fact, I asked those very questions this morning.  As I drove like a crazy person on my way to my first patient this morning I was having one of my normal conversations with God behind the steering wheel.  I found myself asking God.. well.. here's a nice example:

Me: So God, seriously, when someone asks me how to prove you are God and that I'm not crazy, what am I supposed to tell them?  I mean, seriously, I believe in You, but I don't know how to explain who You are to them.  Help me understand.

Yes.  That is a real prayer I said to God.  And if you think I'm just speaking to air, then you need to hear what happened next... an angel appeared in my car!! Ok, I'm kidding. That didn't actually happen.  Nothing happened immediately.  I drove to my patients house, then went to my office, then stopped at a gas station.  I got out to fill my gas tank.  I let the gas go over $40.00 which is not normal, I usually only put in $40 at a time.  I let it go over 41, then 42, then 43 hit and it popped cause the tank was full.  No biggie? I looked at the price and it said 43:10.  Then I had this thing, I can't explain it, but it was a voice telling me to look up Isaiah 43:10.  Why?  Am I crazy?  Hearing voices could mean I am.  But I said, hey, what the heck, I might as well just humor myself. I usually love what I read in the Bible.  I had my doubts at this point, cause if you've ever read Isaiah you'd know that in that point of the Old Testament there was a LOT of chastising from God, usually through the prophets.  Wanna know what the scripture says?

"But you are my witnesses, O Israel!” says the Lord.
“You are my servant. You have been chosen to know me, believe in me,
and understand that I alone am God.
There is no other God—there never has been, and there never will be." Isaiah 43:10

In all seriousness my jaw dropped when I read that scripture.  I was literally speechless.  It is the PERFECT answer to me.  It felt like God actually answered me, I could almost hear a voice to the words... 
I'm not kidding this time.  This really happened.  And I hear it in my heart that I just know it was God.  I just know He's really real.  I can't explain it.  Maybe it was coincidence.  If you want to believe that I'm not going to judge you.  But I can't explain how the answer was so spot on, so direct, and seemingly at the best time. 
I stood at the gas pump, there were people in purple shirts doing a walk for some kind of fundraiser, I watched as they walked by wondering what they were walking for.  Is everything chance?  Or is it orchestrated?  Is this world random? Or is there a purpose and plan for everything?  I'm not sure.  But, I think I'm going to start asking more questions.  Because the more I ask questions, the stronger my faith becomes.