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NO DOUBT CHRISTIAN’S CAN HAVE DOUBTS.
Unbelieving doubt asks questions in order to challenge.
Believing doubt asks questions in order to learn.
Think about a prosecutor asking questions of a witness.
He isn’t asking questions to learn something but rather to disprove something, to make a point.
He has the answers already and is challenging the witness.
This is the attitude of unbelieving doubt.
It puts God on the witness stand and treats Him as if He owes us answers and as if we are the authority.
Now think about a young child asking her parents questions.
She has total trust in their ability to answer and is simply seeking to learn and understand.
This is what the Bible calls “childlike” faith and is a good example of believing doubt.
It isn’t sure.
It doesn’t know.
But it asks with trust in the one who has authority and power.
At its base, doubt is simply not knowing something, not being sure.
And it is inevitable because we are finite and sinful people who are called to trust in an infinite and perfect God.
We simply can’t understand everything about Him.
We will encounter numerous aspects of God’s character, plan, and work that befuddle us because His “wondrous knowledge is beyond” us Psalm 139:6
So here’s the rub: when we are befuddled, do we see that as reason not to trust God or do we see that as evidence God is eminently trustworthy?
Unbelieving doubt sees mystery as a threat and as ominously untrustworthy.
When it doesn’t understand something about God it sees that as a mark against God’s character.
Believing doubt, on the other hand, reflects Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen.”
When believing doubt encounters the unknown it responds with faith—resting in what it does know about God’s character and promises from His Word to find confidence in what it doesn’t understand.
The mystery is not a threat but rather a promise that God is working in ways beyond our limited capacity to see and understand.
BELIEVING DOUBT TAKES ITS DOUBT TO JESUS.
Adam and Eve were the original unbelieving doubters.
They listened to what God told them and decided they knew better.
Unbelieving doubt is willful rebellion against God just like theirs.
It is the insistence that we know better than God and would be better off if He did things our way.
Ultimately it seeks to subjugate God to our authority.
BELIEVING DOUBT STRENGTHENS REAL FAITH.
Christ sets the example for the believing doubter.
In our moments of greatest uncertainty and in the face of our biggest fears and questions we are to respond as He did in the garden of Gethsemane: make our plea to God for help and then submit to His perfect will.
We will not always get our way.
We will not always get clear answers.
But God will always hear us and respond to us.
He will give us what is best and what we need.
And, on top of His example, the work of Christ Himself gives us this assurance.
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