Originally posted by Ironside:
We all have our share of doubts my friend at some point in time.
The apostles had their doubts....John the Baptist for
one........the precursor of the Lord Jesus Christ even had his
share of doubts:
Lu 7:20 "And coming to Him, the men said, [b]John the Baptist has sent us to
You, saying, Are You He who should come, or do we look for
another?"
John the Baptist here was in prison already. This incident happend
some time after he baptized the Lord Jesus and said of Him as
:"Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the
world!!!!"
It may seem a surprise to us that one as strong as John the Baptist
should doubt corcerning the Lord Jesus Christ being THE CHRIST.
However, we must remember that the best of men suffer lapses of
faith too.
REmember Abraham? Abraham was promised blessings in the land of
promise.
But when severe famine entered the picture. What did he do? Did he
stay in the land of promise and chose to trust God? No. He fled for
Egypt instead of remaining in the place of God's choosing.
And there are so many ensamples of spiritual giants faltering in
their faith.
It will be too volumious if we have to talk about Gideon, Jacob,
Sarah and etc.
yes, my friend we experience doubts. However, you must know that
doubt is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of faith is
unbelief. You can have doubts and still have faith:
Mt 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught
him, and said to him, "O you of little faith, why
did you doubt?"
You can even have some degree of unbelief and still have
faith:
Mr 9:24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with
tears, "Lord, I
believe; help my unbelief
The man obviously had faith. He brought his son to the Lord Jesus
Christ [in the first place].
but he was also assailed by unbelief.
This is so my friend because we are not completely ridden of our
sinful nature. The moment you trusted in Christ alone for
salvation, a new nature was implanted to you. But the sinful nature
,although nailed to the cross when Christ died for us, is still
there and still rears it's ugly head.
My advice to you my friend is:
Keep on reading the Bible. Faith comes by hearing and so faith must
grow also by continual hearing of the Word of God. Our spiritual
food.
As you grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord, your
spiritual muscles get stronger.
P.S. please do not hesitate to ask us questions here......it is our
duty to help a fellow believer.
when i was still new in the faith.......i also had those doubts
similar to yours. [/b]
Eh you mention JTB. But Christ looks on the good side. He
commended JTB for his faith instead of his unbelief when he send
his disciples to ask Him that question. Our sins are cleansed away.
Praise God! So every time God looks at us, it will be as if we are
sinless bcos of the blood of Jesus & the Cross. He will look at
times when we are faithful instead of times when we were
unfaithful. Thank God!
