I read a ‘Focus On The Family’ magazine article on Doubt. The article had several quotes that I have kept on a piece of paper and I found it today. I was blessed to read the quotes and decided to put them in a more permanent form here on the blog.
In his book “The Gift of Doubt,” Gary Parker writes;
“If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles with evil, how can faith know it’s own power?” In my own pilgrimage, if I have to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.”
” Christ often allows me to feel just enough emotional discomfort from my doubts that I looked to Him for relief. If you often ask God questions —not to prove Him wrong, but to prove Him right—- your questions can lead you to greater faith.”
” For doubt to be beneficial it must always give way to faith. this means that if He does not provide the specific answers we are looking for, we will trust Him with what we can’t understand.”
” Though doubt can feel like a bully that presses us into a corner, it can be a friend when we allow it to drive us deeper into the arms of God for the answers to our questions.”
Now that I have almost quoted the whole article I will quit. This is my final thought, and my hope that I will hold onto and walk out.
I think I often feel bullied by doubt, but in the end I need to see that doubt can be used to press me into the arms of God. If I will continue to turn to God for the answers, one day Doubt will get the message that God is using it to draw me closer to HIM, and doubt will leave me alone.
Tanya
