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Help My Unbelief

 

 

"I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!" Mark 9:24

 

God is great…but sometimes you are unconvinced.

 

He is mighty, but because He doesn’t act as you feel He should, you wonder if He is good.  He has promised to forgive your sins, heal your hurts, and make even difficult things work out to your benefit, but because you can’t see beyond your personal failures or present crisis, you doubt. 

 

 

I know…it hurts to even say it.  In some ways it sounds like a weakness, but as you are confronted with the frailty of your own faith, you have to admit that you sometimes doubt. 

 

 

Doubt in its truest form means that you have questions.  You don’t want to denounce Christ, but you are frustrated with those momentary attacks that melt your certainty. So how can you solidify your faith? How can you gather the strength of your doubts and use it to fuel sincere trust?

 


 Although the following suggestions are not formulaic, they will definitely help, no matter how deeply seated your uncertainty is. 

 

 

1.  Pray and ask God to help resolve your unbelief. Not only does He want to help you with your current crisis, He wants to strengthen your faith as well.

 

 

2.  Keep trying.  I had a friend named Chris that stopped reading the Bible and attending church as soon as doubt struck, but that is not what you should do.  The Bible is like a medicine for your unbelief. If you want your doubt to shrivel up, give it a good dose of the uncompromised truth. Instead of pulling away, take a little extra time to dig in deeper.


 If you are struggling with doubt in your life right now, take a few days off from our conversations together and spend the extra time reading God’s Word.  If you currently don’t read at all, spend at least fifteen to thirty minutes daily.  Start in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John and begin to observe the character and life of Jesus.

 

 

3.   Talk to people who seem to have a strong faith.  Ask them why they believe what they do. But don’t go into it critically, looking to catch them, and don’t assume they have uneducated views.  Simply listen. Ask them how they justify their faith in the midst of doubts they have had.

 

 

 Doubts are common, but they should not be accepted.  Work past them.  Fight through them.  Pray about them. After you burst through to the other side, your faith will be stronger and your beliefs unshakable.

 

In the past, have your doubts and questions pulled you away from connection with Christ, or have they moved you closer? In order to truly overcome them, what needs to happen?    

 

How are you going to apply the three suggestions above to help overcome your faith struggles?  Make a plan and execute it.  The time to begin moving toward an unshakable faith is now.   

 

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