What do you do if you have doubts?

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Jeremiah 33:3

Do you have doubts in your heart? And your response to them is to keep them in your heart?

Why haven’t you acted upon them? Maybe doubts are sowed by Satan. But God is greater than puny Satan. God has planned everything from the beginning. Do you think those little doubts have gone unnoticed by God? The same God that knows the number of hairs on our heads?

God let those doubts be sowed in you. He wants you to find the answers to them.

What happens when you find answers to your doubts?

Your faith is strengthened. You become more appreciative of God and grow closer to Him. Are there any punishments or consequences of trying to resolve your doubts? No. God loves to answer your questions. God desires us to question Him. God wants us to know more about Him and His glory. Why do you think He established churches, wrote a book and let the internet bloom?

Why are there so many translations of the original Bible?

God wants everyone, every soul He has created to learn about Him, being unrestricted by their literacy or knowledge of the original languages of the bible(Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic). He’s not hiding. He’s showing his Glory always. He wants to show us His glory and majesty.

We are the ones hiding. We are terrified to learn the truths. We are afraid to act upon our doubts. We think they are bad. We think it'll make things worse. If you think the English translations are corrupted, don’t just stop there, don’t just believe the bible is inaccurate without ever doing research or trying to learn more about God’s word. Go learn the original languages. Go read the original texts of the bible found online. God will make a way for you to do so. He’s not hiding anything. Satan is. Satan wants to block you from knowing more about Him. He's good. But our God is Greater. If you’re determined, God will make a way for you. God’s always working. And God is limitless. Satan is limited.

Deuteronomy 31:6

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Just take a look at Job. He is considered righteous in God’s eyes, along with Noah and Daniel. (Ezekiel 14:14)

He was afflicted with so much suffering though he hadn’t done anything wrong. Still, his first instinct wasn’t to blame and curse God. In fact, he never cursed God, he only cursed his own self. His own wife asked him to curse God and die yet he refused. He just wanted to question God. He wanted answers. And eventually He asked God for it.

We just have doubts. Job lost his family, wealth, health and essentially everything he held dear in this world. He knew he didn’t sin recently so it wasn’t a consequence or punishment either.

If I were him, I’d be harboring much more than just some doubts. An initial wave of confusion will turn into anger, despair and disbelief all at once. It wasn’t just a day of suffering either. It was at least a full week, enough to make Job known for his patience as we see in James 5:11.

Yet, he kept faith in God. He knew God is always right though he couldn’t comprehend the reason for his suffering. He didn’t try to run away from God, didn’t try to blame others for it, didn’t try to worship other Gods and didn’t try to hide from God. Instead, "Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped"(Job 1:20). His posture was one of humility. He opened his eyes and ears by remaining silent to listen to what God had to say for he knew God had a reason.

Job 1:22| In spite of everything, Job did not sin or accuse God of doing wrong.

Are we being conceited or arrogant? Do we believe we know more than God? Do we think of our own intelligence as greater than His?

When doubts, fears and worries cloud your mind, do we give in to them? Or do we pray and question God, whose answers will melt them away.

If we start to make our own conclusions and judgments on God’s character and existence without ever trying to reach out to Him or to getting to know Him better, then aren’t we being too haughty?

Aristotle famously wrote, "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."

Don’t trust in your own limited wisdom and capacity. Trust in God’s unlimited wisdom and capacity.

I apologize if this feels like a reproach. It’s something I feel God is reminding, perhaps even schooling everybody about.

James 4:13-16

Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

One thing I have learned from the day I rededicated the rest of my life to God is that once you start living intentionally for Him, you begin to notice a measure of God’s intentionality for you.

Truly, truly, everything He does is for you. Every low you go through leads to a new high. Do you think it's coincidental?

Now the question stands, Are you earnestly seeking the kingdom of God?

Don’t be like the waves in the ocean. Don’t be shaken up by doubts and fears. Build your house upon Jesus, the cornerstone of your faith.

Why Jesus?

Even Job realized that it’s difficult for him to talk to God and his overwhelming glory directly. He wished for a mediator in Job 9:32-35. And guess what? God gave us all, the perfect mediator – Jesus Christ – a human like us able to understand everything we go through and yet remain sinless and faithful to God. He is God who humbled himself, gave up his glory to be clothed in our flesh. So we could connect with God once again. So we could stand in the presence of God once again.

Despite our sinful nature and despite the gap between us we can talk to God,

for our Lord Jesus covers the gap.

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”