Jamin Bradley

If you have not experienced doubt then you cannot experience faith, for faith is hardly faith without some level of doubt. If people are healed every single time you pray for them, is that faith or physics?

I do not have real faith in gravity, because I do not doubt it. It does not challenge me. It does not give me the space to question it. It is too concrete in my life to truly qualify as a thing of faith. I do not need to make any conscious decision to have faith in gravity.

My faith in Jesus is different. It grows from unbelief, to “I believe, help my unbelief,” to belief. Sometimes it maxes out in the 100% belief that God can heal, even though it remains a doubt as to if he will heal this particular time. With every death I face, my faith is renewed by doubt so that it might be made stronger.

Your faith is only as strong as the doubts you’ve overcome. Doubt is the fuel for a fuller, robust, faith that can move mountains. This is the kind of faith that sees miracles, survives storms, and is not tossed into crisis by every wave that comes its way.

Hold fast. Jesus has a way of proving himself sure.