Questioning Your Faith

We are soldiers for Jesus. We move along in route and don’t question what we believe. We just operate and push through never questioning our faith. We are soldiers. We move. We endure. We overcome.

But then, the waves hit. Your loved one is diagnosed with cancer. Your spouse asks for a divorce. You hear of a close friend getting covid. Your child walks away from faith and all that you raised them with.

You pray.

You beg God to…

heal,

restore,

renew,

rebuild,

reconcile.

And then, your loved one dies after a long battle with cancer. It was brutal. It was painful. It was ugly.

Your spouse refuses to reconcile and files for divorce. Your kids are devasted. You can’t imagine how you will pick up the pieces.

Your friend dies of covid. They were healthy. It happened so suddenly.

Despite your daily and nightly prayers for your child they continue to push you away, push God away, and reject God and His love and directives. You feel utterly hopeless.

But you are a soldier. You don’t question. You stay faithful.

Is it even okay to question? Is it okay to wonder where is God in all this mess? In all this pain and suffering?

Where are You, God?

Where are You? Do You care?

Questioning strengthens our faith. Questioning helps us to renew our faithfulness and our steadfastness. Questioning and wrestling with God can transform us to new heights.

Let’s not forget Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis 32. He wrestled with God through the night and in the morning, Jacob was blessed. Blessed! Genesis 32:28b tells us: “Because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

Jacob overcame…

And was blessed.

It’s okay to question. It’s okay to wrestle.

But then…

Look back.

Look back on all God has done. All those times you “heard Him” and felt His presence.

Go back.

Go back to when you decided to follow Jesus. Why? What were the circumstances and reasons for your transformation?

Return to your roots.

Return to your foundation—Jesus Christ.

When we stand firm on a solid foundation, we can stand through all the waves and hurdles and challenges…

And questioning.

For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 (ESV)

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