"Oh, I don't think it matters what a fellow believes so long as he is sincere in it." Such an idea is often expressed when the question of faith in Christ is raised.
There can be no faith without sincerity, of course, but surely what you believe is at least as important as how you believe! Let us test the above expression with a very ordinary occurrence. A young airman was going on leave. He had reached the station nearest his home and rose to leave the train. He opened the door and, with a last over-the-shoulder joke to his companions, stepped into the night—as he thought on to the platform. His second step was on to—NOTHING!
With a startled cry and a wild effort to save himself, he plunged through space and landed twenty feet below on a hard road, alive but badly hurt. What had happened was that just beyond the platform was a bridge over the road and, not noticing that the long train had overrun the platform, our friend had stepped out on to the parapet of this bridge.
He knew the station well, and he thought he was all right. BUT HIS SINCERITY DID NOT SAVE HIM.
And so it is with the great question of your eternal salvation. We are not left in the dark to form our own opinions. The Bible—God's message to lost man—tells us the way.
Jesus Christ is the way to God—not your opinions, or your prayers, or your good deeds or your sincerity. He Himself said, "No man cometh unto the Father but by Me." If you feel that things are
not right between you and God, and you wish they were, the way to settle the question is simply to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. There was a time when the apostle Thomas said, "I will not believe", but when he found himself face to face with Jesus He just owned Him with adoring worship as "My Lord and my God."