The Believer and Doubt
From man’s viewpoint, God is a friend. From God’s viewpoint, man is cursed, but believers become His born again children, which is much more than simple friendship. Friendship is not an accurate truth of our relationship with God. We are, as believers in Christ, His children. We become spiritual children to a Spiritual Father at the cross-point of salvation—the new birth.
Exploring faith, I discover doubt. Exploring doubt, I discover faith. Doubt tests faith. Faith is tempted by doubt, but strengthened by fear. God’s invisibility guarantees that we will doubt, to some degree, at some point in our lives, yet doubt gives us courage to keep on keeping on.
We long for a glimpse into the supernatural, just a little proof of the eternal God of true reality. Because God is invisible, man attempts to make God the image of man, or of creation. Ironically, man and creation are the image of the Creator.
Without visible, physical comfort, man makes his own materialistic image. Religion offers a decorated, empty glass to the thirsty—a recipe without food for the starving. The character of God lives in all the words of Scripture—his mind expressed in the vocabulary of humanity.
God reveals Himself in knowledge—all knowledge comes from God. He also reveals Himself in the laws that govern existence, both in Scripture and in creation.
God is real—more real than anything we see, hear, feel, smell, or touch. What Christ did for us is real, and His love is real. Rest in that, believer.
Rest in Him.