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Faith and doubt — not the best of buds!

How deep is your faith? How deep is your faith in God…in Jesus…in the Bible? True Bible faith is an obedient trust in God that believes and does whatever He says, no matter what. Scripture records that Abraham “did not waver at the promise of God,” but he was “fully convinced that what [God] had promised He was also able to perform” (Rom. 4:20-21).

Over opposed to faith is doubt. To “doubt” is to have a divided mind, unsure within one’s mind which way to go. While deep faith will not waver at the promise of God, doubt does nothing but waver, for it is unstable at its very core. Faith and doubt are so aptly contrasted in James 1:6-8, where one who doubts “is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.” A heart of faith cannot at the same time be a heart of doubt–the two cannot coexist!

How deep is your faith? Our every desire must be to minimize and remove doubt (double-mindedness) in our hearts and plead with the Lord to “increase our faith” (Luke 17:5).