DOUBT HERE IS EQUIVALENT TO UNBELIEF. A PERSON WHO DOUBTS IS UNSTABLE OR DIVIDED, WHO LACKS SUFFICIENT FAITH TO LAY HOLD OF THE PROMISES OF GOD.
IN DOUBTING ONE SINS AGAINST THE LORD BECAUSE HE HAS QUESTIONED THE CHARACTER, GOODNESS AND FAITHFULNESS OF GOD.
MARK 11:23 - JESUS SAYS FOR ASSUREDLY , I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER SAYS TO THIS MOUNTAIN, “BE REMOVED AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA, AND DOES NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART, BUT BELIEVES THOSE THINGS HE
SAYS WILL BE DONE, HE WILL HAVE WHATEVER HE SAYS.
IN THE ABOVE VERSE, WE SEE JESUS TRYING TO INSTILL FAITH IN HIS DISCIPLES, THE PREVIOUS DAY, JESUS HAD CURSED THE FIG TREE WHICH FAILED TO SATIATE HIS HUNGER . NEXT DAY AS JESUS WAS PASSING THAT PLACE (YOU THINK JESUS WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THE SITUATION OF THE TREE), YET HE KEPT SILENT BUT HIS DISCIPLES NOTICED AND REMEMBERED WHAT JESUS HAD SPOKEN TO THE FIG TREE AND SEEING IT WITHERED POINTED IT OUT TO JESUS, JESUS REPLY WAS HAVE FAITH IN GOD.
WHY DID JESUS SAY THAT?
GOD HAS GIVEN US UMPTEEN NUMBER OF PROMISES TO LIVE OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE, WHY ARE WE BEING TOLD ON AND OF TO MEDITATE ON THE WORD OF GOD? BECAUSE, IT IS THE WORD THAT WILL HELP US IN OUR BAD TIME AND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE ENEMY ,SPECIALLY WHERE OUR MIND IS CONCERNED BECAUSE IT IS OUR WEAKNESS THAT MAKES US PREY TO THE ENEMIES PLOTS.
JOHN 20 : 27- THEN HE SAID TO THOMAS,” REACH YOUR FINGER HERE, AND LOOK AT MY HANDS; AND REACH YOUR HAND HERE,AND PUT IT INTO MY SIDE. DO NOT BE UNBELIEVING BUT BELIEVING,”
THOMAS DOUBTED THAT JESUS HAD RISEN AND WAS STANDING RIGHT BEFORE HIM, UNTIL JESUS TOLD HIM TO REACH OUT AND TOUCH HIS WOUNDS.
HOW MANY OF US FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY OF DOUBT & UNBELIEF, WE FORGET THAT GOD HAS BLESSED US WITH EVERYTHING, WHICH IS WITHIN OUR VERY REACH BUT WE FALL IN THE SIN OF DOUBT & WALK IN DECEPTION WHICH MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO BLESS US IN THIS LIFE.
MAY WE MAKE IT A POINT TO FOLLOW AND OBEY GOD IN ALL HIS PRECEPTS,
PRAYER: FATHER GOD LET THE GOD - KIND OF FAITH INCREASE IN ME DAY BY DAY AS YOU ENLIGHTEN ME WITH THE REVELATION OF YOUR WORD, MAY I NOT FORGET THAT YOU ARE PRESENT AT THE STRETCH OF MY HAND, MAY MY FOCUS BE ON YOU AND YOU ALONE, AND NOT ON THE CHAOS AROUND ME, IN JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN.
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