Let’s be honest about something that so few in “church” life are willing to talk about: Doubt.

Have you ever lived in the dark shadows of doubt and felt all alone?

• Do you one moment have zero doubts about God’s existence and then the next feel incredibly naive?
• Do you ever wonder if there really is a God? A real Hell and a real Heaven?
• Do you ever doubt that your prayers really matter at all?
• Do you ever doubt your own relationship with God…doubt that if He is real that He cares anything about you?

If you can honestly answer yes to any of those questions…congratulations.  You are part of the human race.

Do you realize that even the greatest heroes in the Bible struggled with doubt at different times?

• David had doubts.
• Solomon had doubts.
• Job had doubts.
• Jeremiah had doubts.
• John the Baptist even had doubts!

The church has tested positive for the virus called doubt since the very beginning.

Lee Strobel said it like this:

“We could divide Christians into three groups. 

The first would consist of those who have doubted. 

The second would be those who haven’t doubted yet, but who will.  The third group would be those who are brain-dead.”

I want you to understand something: There is nothing inherently wrong with doubt.

Faith presupposes doubt and by the very nature of what faith is it has to be preceded by doubt.  After all, if there is no room for doubt, there is no place for faith.

However, I want you to understand there is a difference between doubt and unbelief.

Doubt asks questions while unbelief won’t even listen to answers.

The next few weeks we are going to study a man in the Bible who had such a problem with doubt that he is the only disciple that has ever been given a nickname.

You most likely know him as, “Doubting Thomas.”

Though Thomas has gotten somewhat of a bad rap through the years, he does teach us how to deal with doubt – how to handle doubt properly.

He shows us that we can starve our doubt while feeding our faith.

If you are dealing with doubt today, doubt about salvation, doubt about God, about His goodness, about His grace, about His mercy, about His justice, even about His very existence…

Know that it is normal…and know that God will give you the answers if you are truly willing to listen.

Be sure and check out the next post as we take a look at “Doubting Thomas!”