Believing, what does it mean?

A Twitter response to an excellent point. The words in Matthew 7 where Jesus says “I never knew you.”

You are certainly correct about that.  A warning to us all.  Believing is the key.  In this day and age people believe in anything,

In fact it was GK Chesterton from a few generations back, way before social media  “enlightened” us all who said

“When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.”  So believing is the key.

When I was searching for God, this verse spoke to me.  “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. – 1 John 5:13

I am a believer.  I can’t speak for you or anyone else.   I can speak for me.