How Can We Overcome Our Doubts?

3/2/18        Becca                      upper 20's?

A desperate father begged a traveling preacher to heal his son.   

The preacher answered his request, saying “Everything is possible for one who believes.”

A trite saying?  Heard it all before?  Too good to be true?

For people who have grown up in churchgoing families, the easy, trite answers of their childhood often don’t hold up under the uncertainties and pressures of adulthood.  Life gets complicated, and their simple faith needs to get more complicated along with it.

That’s where I found Becca, willing to lend a little time at the coffeeshop to explain her complicated faith and her ongoing struggle with doubt.  I appreciated her honesty, her openness about her struggle, her willingness to try a new worship environment, and her commitment to spiritual disciplines.  

Becca seems to be willing to confront questions for the sake of overcoming her doubts, as opposed to the many skeptics I’ve talked with who ask questions only to feed their doubts.

Becca seemed to me to be like the boy’s father who answered the preacher “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

When we talk with people who are struggling with their personal demons, whether they be evils spirits or nagging doubts, we want to ask the Preacher - “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

And we will get the same answer He gave his disciples so many years ago - “This kind can come out only by prayer.”  (Mark 9:29)

See our conversation here