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>Can anyone explain to me how I can come to believe in God?
The path is different for all people, but nobody comes to the true God without humility and an honest desire to know him. It seems like you're already on the path. I myself went through a long path of first seeing the illogical nature of various atheism-influenced views, and then finally accepting that some sort of impersonal God might exist after all but still denied Christ and saw Christianity as 'beneath me' like most 'intellectual types' do, then I saw that literally everyone denying Christ essentially falls into either the pagan-relativist or judaic-pharisee category and understood that it was all folly, prayed for the first time since childhood, read the Gospel, went to church and just couldn't deny it anymore.
>Why is it reasonable for me to believe in God?
Because it's not reasonable to deny him and your own experience of him and things directly pertaining to him. It's completely unreasonable and self-contradictory to doubt truth, love, free will, design/purpose, logic and language as all atheists inevitably end up doing if they're 'intelligent' enough and go through with thinking on these topics in any depth. God knows us very well and shows perfectly all over the world what kind of people reject God in exchange for transient and ever-evolving 'knowledge' or being perceived as 'wise' in this world.

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

>Rather I am interested in a concrete, personal God.
God bless, anon. You're already closer to the truth than you realize.