What is something that blinds you the more you look at it? What is something we can only see through, when we ignore it? Doubt. Doubt is one of the most “yucky”, undesirable, unhelpful things I can think of. Not to mention, it is insulting to the Lord, for those who know Him and know they should trust Him. I spit doubt out of my mouth, as soon as I taste it. The more we let it stay, the more it grows. The more we ignore it, the more quickly it passes and we see through what we were tempted to doubt. The boy from “The Polar Express” (by Chris Van Allsburg) wasn’t a doubter. He became one. One day, the seed of doubt was planted. Thinking he was
somehow smarter to doubt, he looked for reasons to doubt. He soon convinced himself what he believed so confidently before wasn’t true. Through miraculous intercession, he only learned to
believe what he shouldn’t have doubted to begin with. In real life, God can intercede miraculously if He so desires, but He doesn’t prove what we should rightly believe. That is not faith or trust on our part, or true love on His part. Doubt doesn’t come from us. It comes from the enemy, whose subtle seed of doubt caused the fall of human nature. If it weren’t for doubt in God, there would be no self-reliance: the cause of sin. We would we simply know better to look
to Him in all things, rather than ourselves.
         So doubt isn’t as much looking outwardly, but looking downward and inward. Doubting ourselves can be just as harmful as doubting God. Why? Doubting yourself is doubting the good He put in you or what He can do in you. When another person points a finger at us, it
makes us question ourselves. If we listen too long, we can try to be something we’re not. If we point the finger at ourselves, we doubt what others see and limit what God can do. If we reduce ourselves to what is wrong with us, we can fail to identify ourselves by the good that makes us who we are. Long story short, trust is better. Trust is a far better default than doubt for ourselves, our thoughts, the world and Jesus being Lord in all things. When we look to the Lord as we are, in all things and trust Him, we’re not afraid of being challenged, being humbled, learning lessons and embracing change to be more faithfully who we are. We’re not afraid of uncertainties, our inabilities or our unworthiness. We see ourselves, others, the world and we trust Him. We simply believe in Him in all things and go from there. So let nothing or no one cause you to doubt the self you know, trust and you are with Him.