🤔 Doubting

Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Jesus was patient with Thomas, and with the father who said, “Help my unbelief.”

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

Mark 9:24

²⁷Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.” ²⁸Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” ²⁹Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

John 20:27–29

¹⁶When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; ¹⁷Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Psalm 73:16–17

On some have compassion, making a distinction,

Jude 1:22

²Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples ³and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?” ⁴Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: ⁵the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. ⁶Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Matthew 11:2–6

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