Heneni
Miss Independent
Doubting is a luxury we cannot afford. Some would say that doubting is not a luxury but instead a terrible trial and burden. We love to give up trials and burdens, we hardly like to give up luxuries. Trying to give up doubt would be to some like giving up their blanket. And that is what doubt is, a luxury, something we tend to not want to give up. When doubt comes to our door with its sympathetic arguments as to why you cannot believe God, we sit and entertain our 'friend' We join in with their arguments and utterly beleive that we are a perculiar case,and that we cannot trust in God in this or that matter for reasons that are quite understandable. And so we come to walk in the council of the wicked friend doubt and sit around until our doubt has become nothing but scofffing at Gods ability. Of course we dont MEAN to blame God for having doubts, we just wish He would give us more to go on.
We are like little lambs who say'' the shephard only cares about the little sheep that do not wander''
To deliver yourself from your friend called doubt, you have to make the obvious choice. You have to let him go, you have to use your will and say 'I WILL BELIEVE'. Why? Because God is utterly trustworthy and faitful to perform whatever pleases Him, and it pleases Him if you dont doubt Him.
Then BECOME like a child again. A child feels no need to worry about whether they will be fed, clothed, comforted, protected and loved. (No wonder satan attacks families the way He does, if a child has a head start on what it means to trust their father, it would be easier to trust God)
A child comes in and out of his fathers house without a care in the world. Knowing that the Father will be there always. The father always loves Him. The father provides the child with whatever it is that they need. The child does not gather provision in a secret room in the event that the father might forget about him. Even in the time of war and great danger, the child instinctively knows to draw closer to the father, who WILL fight for them!
You get into a train or a bus and you dont think twice about whehter the driver is competent to get you to your destination. You go to a restaurant and eat food laid before you without thinking its going to be poisoned. If we can place this kind of trust in people, we have ample reason to trust our Heavenly Father with SO much more!
Give up on doubt. Its not your friend. Trust God, you know how to do it, you trust various people instinctively everyday. TRUST HIM all the more.
Is there a good reason to doubt God? I wouldnt think so. But somehow we find ourselves doing it. Its a luxury we cannot afford.
What say you?
Heneni
We are like little lambs who say'' the shephard only cares about the little sheep that do not wander''
To deliver yourself from your friend called doubt, you have to make the obvious choice. You have to let him go, you have to use your will and say 'I WILL BELIEVE'. Why? Because God is utterly trustworthy and faitful to perform whatever pleases Him, and it pleases Him if you dont doubt Him.
Then BECOME like a child again. A child feels no need to worry about whether they will be fed, clothed, comforted, protected and loved. (No wonder satan attacks families the way He does, if a child has a head start on what it means to trust their father, it would be easier to trust God)
A child comes in and out of his fathers house without a care in the world. Knowing that the Father will be there always. The father always loves Him. The father provides the child with whatever it is that they need. The child does not gather provision in a secret room in the event that the father might forget about him. Even in the time of war and great danger, the child instinctively knows to draw closer to the father, who WILL fight for them!
You get into a train or a bus and you dont think twice about whehter the driver is competent to get you to your destination. You go to a restaurant and eat food laid before you without thinking its going to be poisoned. If we can place this kind of trust in people, we have ample reason to trust our Heavenly Father with SO much more!
Give up on doubt. Its not your friend. Trust God, you know how to do it, you trust various people instinctively everyday. TRUST HIM all the more.
Is there a good reason to doubt God? I wouldnt think so. But somehow we find ourselves doing it. Its a luxury we cannot afford.
What say you?
Heneni
