Mt11

What do you do with doubt?  Does it push you away from or draw you closer to God?  I used to believe that doubt was the enemy of faith and that if I had any doubt, it was because I lacked faith.

Even John the Baptist doubted!  In one scene he is prophesying, "behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world", and in today's passage he says, "are you the one or should we look for someone else?"  John's doubt was not a lack of faith, it was the evidence of his desire for faith!

Everyone in the scripture who had great faith, including John, Abraham, Isaiah, Jeremiah, David, etc., had moments of doubt.  Sometimes it was because of their doubting that they did destructive things.  Often God would reenforce their need to have faith in Him in the midst of doubt!

I believe doubt is not the enemy of faith!  It might be what God uses to actually strengthen your faith.  Faith is not without reason.  God is not afraid of your questions.  Faith is required to know and love God, but it is not mindless, doubtless faith!

Ask away.

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