When It's Hard · Doubt & Distance
Doubting My Faith
For when you feel: losing my faith, is God real, deconstruction, hard questions
And immediately the father of the boy crying out, with tears said: I do believe, Lord. Help my unbelief.
The MinuteHomily
A father pushed through the crowd with his suffering son, and when Jesus asked if he believed, the man gave the most honest answer in the Gospels: "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." Belief and unbelief in the same breath, and Jesus answered that prayer. He did not send the man away to sort out his theology first. Doubt is not the opposite of faith, indifference is. The doubter is still at the table, still asking, still wrestling like Jacob at the river, and wrestling is contact. So bring your questions to God rather than only about Him. Read the Gospels again with your hardest one in hand. Faith the size of a mustard seed, Jesus said, is enough to work with, and He meant it.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief. Meet me inside the questions, and hold onto me while I hold on with one hand. Amen.
“Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.”
St. John Henry Newman
Hymns for this moment
“Lead, Kindly Light” · St. John Henry Newman
written in a season of dark uncertainty
“Adoro Te Devote” · St. Thomas Aquinas
faith beyond what senses grasp
One small step
Write down your single hardest question and pray it to God directly tonight.
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