Deeperoots

As we go through our everyday lives we can surely lose sight of anything we aren’t doing at the time. We just don’t feel God’s presence in our lives because we don’t really take the time to let Him in. Has anyone ever felt like they are far from God and are unsure that He’s even there? I feel kind of like that sometimes, and that can easily lead to doubts. And sometimes we think we can get closer to Him by just by prayer and bible reading, but if we do it without an attitude and knowledge that He really is there, listening to us, and wanting to speak to us, we aren’t going to get anywhere, because we’re trying to talk to and read about someone who isn’t real in our minds. It is especially hard when bible reading gets confusing because we don’t understand it, or something seems contradictory, but those are the times when we need to believe the most.

We can often find ourselves questioning God, and questioning His word, especially when our lives seem pretty out of our control. [article] When hard times come and we don’t understand where God is in all of it, we doubt His love, and God is love. What we all have to realize though is it’s okay to doubt. Jesus knew we would doubt, but He needs us to believe. Even in the great commission: the purpose and life verse of the church, it says that some doubted:

Mathew 28:16-20 “Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

It is okay to doubt, we all doubt at one time or another, but the thing we cannot do is allow our doubts to change what we believe. We are all going to doubt, we aren’t always going to feel God’s presence all the time, but that’s okay, because God is drawing us back to Him and all we have to do is know He’s there. I mean really know He’s there, and since we can’t see Him directly, or hear Him directly, the only way to do that is through belief.

I challenge you to make God real in your lives, because you’re in His hands and He is holding you all the time. Make Him real and He will be, believe and you will see.

Jesus said it pretty nicely in Mark 11:23: “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.”

Go move mountains!