Trusting and Believing: Devotions From Time of GraceSample

Why Is It so Hard to Trust God? Doubt Is it good to be skeptical? If you’re a scientist, skepticism is considered a badge of honor. Scientists live to prove things. And it’s by doubting, trying, and testing that the great principles and laws of the universe are uncovered and the properties of matter better understood. Is it good to be doubtful and skeptical of God? Is it a good plan to devise tests to prove God’s existence, love, wisdom, or power? Not such a good idea. Doubting God was the first human sin. In the string of things that Satan planted in the minds of Adam and Eve, the first step was to doubt God’s Word. Abraham’s wife, Sarah, was in many ways the mother of all believers. But her bitterness at being childless was so great that she stopped believing that God had good things to give her or that a family could ever be hers. She simply couldn’t believe that the child God had promised would ever come. The Lord said gently but reprovingly, “Why did Sarah laugh? . . . Is anything too hard for the LORD?” (Genesis 18:13,14). The Lord’s words banish doubt. When your life shakes with doubt, listen to your God talking to you. Let his calm voice assure you that nothing is too hard for him and that everything is going to be all right.