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E V E R Y D A Y L I G H T
Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
Decide to Believe
"... when he asks, he must believe and not doubt ..." (v. 6)
-- For reading & meditation: James 1:2-12
Another important principle to employ when dealing with honest doubts is
this: Make a conscious decision to doubt your doubts and believe your
beliefs. Living an effective Christian life, as we have been seeing,
depends on how willing we are to exercise our wills in favor of God and
His Word. To do this requires faith in the fact that God has revealed
Himself in His Son and through the Scriptures.
As a teenager, I had many doubts about the Scriptures but, one night, I
made a conscious decision to accept them as the eternal and inerrant
Word of God. Notice, I said "a conscious decision." I decided by an
action of my will to doubt my doubts and believe my beliefs. I then
found an astonishing thing. Both doubt and faith are like muscles - the
more you flex them, the stronger they become.
I had been using the muscles of doubt to a great degree, but
unfortunately, I had failed to exercise the muscles of faith. When I
made up my mind to accept the truth of God's Word by faith, muscles I
never thought I had began to function. Now, many years later, those
muscles are developed to such a degree that I find, where God is
concerned, it is easier to believe Him than to doubt Him.
I trace the beginnings of my own spiritual development to that day long
ago, when I decided to take what one theologian called "the leap of
faith." Perhaps today might become a similar day of decision for you.
Decide to doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs. Now!
PRAYER:
O God, perhaps this is the secret: I have used the muscles of doubt
more than the muscles of faith. From today, things will be different.
I decide to take You and Your Word on trust - now let it work. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Heb. 11;Matt. 15:21-28; 17:20; ,Rom. 10:17; 12:3
1. What different aspects of faith are shown in Hebrews 11?
2. How did the Canaanite woman overcome the obstacles that confronted
her?
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