How To Handle Doubts About Your Faith
Bringing your questions to God without losing your grip on truth.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 12:27:57 AM UTC
If you’ve ever wrestled with doubts about God, the Bible, or your own salvation, you’re not alone. Doubt isn’t the enemy of faith — but how we respond to doubt matters deeply.
Let’s explore how to face our questions with honesty, courage, and Christ-centered hope.
Doubt Is Not Unbelief
Doubt and unbelief are not the same thing.
Doubt struggles to believe but wants to.
Unbelief refuses to believe even when shown the truth.
24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"
God welcomes the honest cry for help. He is not threatened by your questions.
Bring Your Doubts Into the Light
The worst thing you can do with doubt is hide it in shame.
Talk to God openly about your struggles.
Seek out wise, biblically grounded believers who can listen and walk with you.
Doubts fester in isolation but heal in the light of community and truth.
16 Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
Go to God's Word, Not Your Feelings
Feelings are real, but they aren't reliable guides for truth.
Anchor yourself in Scripture, even when emotions swirl.
Read Psalms where real people wrestle deeply with God.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Remember What You Know
When doubts shout, cling to what you already know is true:
Jesus lived, died, and rose again.
God's promises have not changed.
His Spirit still lives within you.
13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful — for he cannot deny himself.
Feed Your Faith, Not Your Doubts
What you feed grows. What you starve shrivels.
Read testimonies of God's faithfulness.
Worship even when you don't "feel" it.
Surround yourself with truth, not cynicism.
8 Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable... think about these things.
Trust That God Uses Doubt to Deepen Faith
Some of the strongest believers have walked through valleys of doubt.
God uses seasons of questioning to refine, strengthen, and humble us.
If you press into Him, not away from Him, your faith can come out deeper and more unshakable than before.
6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Final Thought
Doubt isn’t a sign that you’ve lost your faith. It’s an invitation to seek Christ more honestly, deeply, and personally.
God isn't afraid of your questions. He's ready to meet you in them.
Ask yourself: Am I running from my doubts, hiding them, or bringing them into God's presence to be healed?
Comment below: When has God met you in a season of doubt? What helped you hold on to Him?
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