"The truth is: Doubt is not a “sin.”
It’s great to have a vibrant, robust, thriving sort of
faith, and God wants that for you. But our deepest roots are born out of the
winter nights when we’ve had to dig into the shallow dirt of our infant beliefs
and reach into the soil of our most core foundations.
True faith, the kind that perseveres through pain and trials
and urgency, takes a surgical navigation through all the very difficult
questions of life. Only doubts will ever get you to ask them.
When pain hits home and you’re walking through that cancer
or car accident or earthquake, you want the kind of faith that can face death.
In the end, I want a faith that
doesn’t just tickle my inspiration or gives me cute slogans, but a faith that
can get beat up by suffering and scholars and satanic evil, and will keep on
standing.
There are too many Christians who don’t really dig to the
bottom of what they believe, so that when tragedy comes, they wonder how their
concept of God could ever allow such misery. This quickly turns into a toxic
disillusionment because their faith was never nuanced enough to deal with the
gray-space struggle of real life.
It’s not that their God was not big enough, but rather much
too small."
- J.S. Park
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