Nature of doubt (2)
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· 6 viewsDoubt leads to insecurity and lack of trust concerning God’s willingness and ability to deliver his people. It also leads to a fear of people and situations.
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Doubting God’s truth
Doubting God’s truth
Doubt as a questioning of God’s words
Doubt as a questioning of God’s words
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
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Doubt as lack of faith
Doubt as lack of faith
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
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Doubt as wavering
Doubt as wavering
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
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Doubt as double-mindedness
Doubt as double-mindedness
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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Doubt as insecurity about relationship with God
Doubt as insecurity about relationship with God
Doubting God’s compassion
Doubting God’s compassion
“Will the Lord spurn forever,
and never again be favorable?
Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
Are his promises at an end for all time?
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah
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Doubting God’s concern
Doubting God’s concern
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Doubting God’s desire to deliver
Doubting God’s desire to deliver
You said, ‘Woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.’
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Doubting God’s ability to deliver
Doubting God’s ability to deliver
They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.
They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
He struck the rock so that water gushed out
and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”
Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
a fire was kindled against Jacob;
his anger rose against Israel,
because they did not believe in God
and did not trust his saving power.
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Doubting God’s justice
Doubting God’s justice
Righteous are you, O Lord,
when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
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Doubt as fear of people and situations
Doubt as fear of people and situations
But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
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