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Questions for God

Have you ever had questions for God that made you question God? Questions you didn’t have answers to. Questions that created doubts. Doubts that you didn’t know what to do with. Questions that have taken you to a place where you don’t know what you believe anymore or even if you believe anymore. 

Questions about science, the Bible, evil, suffering, judgmental Christians, different religions, and even more. These are real questions, and they can be hard questions, but over the course of this journey, we’ll see that there are good answers to the big questions for God. 

But first, let’s talk about doubt. Because doubt can be really scary. 

Doubt doesn’t make you a bad Christian. Doubt makes you human. 

Don’t just take my word for it! Check out these words from great Christian thinkers, authors, and theologians: 

• “Who among us has not experienced insecurity, loss and even doubts on their journey of faith? … We’ve all experienced this. Me too.” —Pope Francis 

• “I think the trouble with me is lack of faith … often when I pray, I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address.” —C.S. Lewis 

• “Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.” —Frederick Buechner
• “Other people have a concept of God so fundamentally false that it would be better for them to doubt than to remain devout. The more devout they are, the uglier their faith will become, since it is based on a lie. Doubt in such a case is not only highly understandable, it is even a mark of spiritual and intellectual sensitivity to error, for their picture is not of God but an idol.” —Os Guinness

Doubt is not the absence of faith. It’s an invitation to develop a deeper faith. 

One of my favorite examples of doubting in the Bible comes right before Jesus sends out His disciples to go and change the world at the end of Matthew’s Gospel. It’s a passage called the Great Commission. The Great Commission is the marching order we have as Christians to share the Good News of Jesus with the world so that they can experience the same love and grace that many of us have. 

Right before Jesus said these words, which just so happen to be the last recorded words He spoke before leaving Earth, we are told in verse 17 that some of the disciples worshiped, and some of them doubted. 

Some worshiped and some doubted. Their doubts did not disqualify them. Your doubts do not disqualify you. Some of them worshiped, and some of them doubted, but they all followed Jesus. 

So, what are you going to do with your questions and your doubts? 

I hope, like so many people before you, you will bring your questions to God, you will process your doubts with people you trust, and you will choose to follow Jesus anyway.