How does faith come?

Many years ago I worked in a small office with only three people. We became very well acquainted and the other two knew that I was a Christian. Once in a setting where there were only my boss (an elderly man) and I present, he said: "I wish I could believe as you do, but I cannot. It's not in my ability to believe in God. I just cannot do it."
Of course this made me sad and I tried to tell Him about Jesus and how simple it was to just accept Him, but to no avail.
I have never forgotten that situation, and his sad opinion about how difficult, or impossible, it seemed to him to believe.
Is it really that difficult to believe in God? Has God made it almost impossible for us to believe in Him?
No, finding God is so simple that "... the simple will not stray from it" (See Isaiah 35:8). Are you a simple person? Then God's way is easy for you to find. But the question is, How do we find God; how does faith come?
When I want to bake a cake, I need a recipe if I don't remember how much flour, butter and sugar I need. And God has given us His recipe for believing. We can read it in Romans 10:17: "So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." It says that "faith comes ..." Faith is not something that is there naturally; faith in God comes through hearing the Word of Christ. In modern vernacular we would say that "faith comes when I read or listen to the Bible". There's no easy shortcut to faith. You can't push a couple of buttons to believe. You have to hear something to believe. It's the same way with the things of this world. You hear on the Weather Channel that it's going to snow, and you prepare for snow. You believe that what the weatherman said, is true, because he has scientific evidence that cold and snowy weather is on its way.
If you never listen to or watch the weather forecast, you will not know what the weather's going to be tomorrow.
It's the same way with faith. You have to hear it to believe it. The sad thing is that most people don't want to read the Bible to obtain faith. And they make excuses and say that "It's so difficult to believe, I just can't do it". No, the thing is they don't want to believe it. Just like my boss, he didn't want to read the Bible, and excused himself into a continued state of unbelief.
Don't be that way. Don't excuse yourself any longer, but read the Bible on a regular basis. And you'll find that The Word does its work. The Word makes faith arise in you, and you'll become a believer!