Showing posts with label when believers doubt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label when believers doubt. Show all posts

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Faith first for true knowledge

Anselm said, "I do not understand so that I might believe, but believe in order to understand."

My grade school teacher taught me that an English preposition was "anywhere a mouse could go."  A mouse can go above, below, around, in, and in-between.  The preposition “between” in Hebrew is also the word for “understanding.”

Thinking with the Bible as your grid gives us understanding.  For instance, difficult is choosing between two good choices.  The bible gives us the capacity to sort out our options.

Proverbs says, “Understanding is a fountain of life to he who has it.”  To know your choices, and make the right one is “understanding.”   Gain “understanding” by remembering the word of God.  Believe it first, to gain understanding.  Usually the choice is obvious; the word is clear.  You can do what a mouse can do.  With divine understanding and the Spirit of God guiding you, you can sort out which way to go.

Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a fountain of life to those who have it, but folly brings punishment to fools.

I have moments of doubt

Mark 9:24  "Immediately the boy's father cried out, saying, 'I do believe; help my unbelief.'"

My kids didn’t believe me when I told them I could fly.  I don’t have wings; I’m not superman; I don’t have any jet packs. They had no evidence, so they remained in their unbelief.  “Prove it,” they say.

But they do not waiver in unbelief when it comes to God.  There is plenty of evidence.  Every day, God proves it.  They saw the lunar eclipse where the earth’s shadow fit exactly over the diameter of the moon.  They saw kittens born, looking like the mother cat.  They see God’s designed order, coupled with irreducible complexity everywhere.

Let  Dr. Jay Quine challenge your unbelief.  The evidence for God is overwhelming.  So in times of doubt, do not waiver in unbelief. You know there is no where else to go!

Romans 4:20 "Yet with respect to the promise of God, he did not waiver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God."