God Can Handle Your Doubts

Breathe Deep and Know: God can handle your doubts. He can calm the waves of unbelief in your soul.

Trust and doubt are opposing waves that seem to constantly rock the ship of my soul, especially in the darkest storms, when it’s difficult to see through the pelting rain and pummeling winds.

I am tossed between what I say I believe and what I feel when I’m afraid. Fear makes me doubt God’s goodness. Anxiety makes me question His love. One moment, I say I believe Him and trust Him and want to follow Him, and the next moment I’m knocked off my feet by some hard thing and I wonder if He’s really even there like I thought He was.

This prayer is one I pray often. “I believe; help my unbelief!” I have faith, but I’m also afraid. I remember what His Word says, but I also struggle with how I feel.

Do you ever feel the same way? Like what you believe and how you feel don’t quite match up? Today, let’s take a minute to remind our souls what we believe and ask God to fill in the gaps of our unbelief with His amazing grace.

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

Mark 9:24 ESV

inhale:

Lord, I believe;

exhale:

help my unbelief.