We want things to be sure, steady, reliable… but what happens when you doubt your faith or feel like the truth you’re standing on is a little, er, wobbly?! Perhaps you’re a logical and reasonable person and you’re struggling with intellectual doubt, or circumstantial doubt has made you question if God can really be good. Maybe you’re emotionally driven and you can’t remember the last time you felt the presence of God… or most likely your doubt doesn’t have a label – you just feel unstable and unsettled where once you were steady.

If you’re in that place of asking “how can I know…” then let me reassure you – you are not alone. Abraham, Moses, Zacharias, Thomas and even John the Baptist, are just some of the Bible greats who asked God “how will I know this for certain?” (Luke 1:18) How can we trust your word? How do we know for sure? One of the main reasons Luke wrote his gospel was so that Theophilus would “know the exact truth about the things… [he had] been taught” (Luke 1:4). And Luke wasn’t alone, John wrote his gospel so that we “may believe… and that by believing you may have life in” Jesus’ name (John 20:30-31).

“Doubt is painful…but its pain is active rather than passive, purifying rather than stultifying. Far beneath it, no matter how severe its drought, how thoroughly your skepticism seems to have salted the ground of your soul, faith, durable faith, is steadily taking root.” (Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss).

Many came to Jesus with their doubts, their confusion and their unbelief – and he didn’t mind. He offered help to the desperate father, reassurance for John the Baptist and evidence to Thomas after the resurrection. Doubt is not the absence of faith and doubt does not equal unbelief. If you feel like your walking on a wobbly bridge at the moment, then take your doubt to Jesus and find reassurance in the fact that many before you have doubted. Many after you will doubt. God still used all of the Biblical doubters for His glory – and He can use you too.

“I pray with great faith for you, because I’m fully convinced that the One who began this glorious work in you will faithfully continue the process of maturing you and will put his finishing touches to it until the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ!” (Philippians 1:6 TPT).