Fortified Faith: How Doubts Help REconstruct BeliefSample

Where the unhealthy approach to deconstruction is faith demolition, the healthy approach to reconstruction is faith renewal.

Today, we're exploring practical ways to partner with God in building a stronger, more resilient faith.

1. Invite the Holy Spirit to Get Involved

Ask God to guide your thoughts and reveal what is not of Him. Invite Him to carry out His ongoing construction as He renews your mind and transforms your heart.

The reconstruction you really want is what God accomplishes in and through you. You get to participate, but you need the Holy Spirit to take the lead. Invite Him into your processing.

Don’t worry that you’ll be “found out” by your questions. By asking these questions, you can find out about God.

Find out more about who God is and who He created you to be.

God wants to reveal hidden things to you. He invites you into a deeper conversation where He — not the opinions of others or external pressures — directs the transformation in your heart.

2. Inspect Your Beliefs

This might sound counterintuitive, but examining what you believe and why you believe it actually fortifies your faith.

The Bible says to take every thought captive to obey Christ, not just the ones considered potentially problematic. You get to partner with God in identifying if any thought disagrees with what He says in His word about who He is and who He made you to be.

Scripture describes this process with warfare vocabulary. You must interrogate your thoughts and require your beliefs to prove themselves before allowing them to stay. But you can’t take someone else’s thoughts captive, only your own. So enter this battle in your own mind with the Holy Spirit’s guidance.

3. Approach Yourself with Compassionate Curiosity, Not Judgment

One challenge in inspecting thoughts and beliefs is the human tendency to judge ourselves. You, like me, may feel you "should" or "ought to" be doing better — praying more, having stronger faith, or reading the Bible more consistently. Instead of condemning yourself, God invites you to approach with curiosity.

Ask yourself:

• Why is that a struggle?
• What root causes are affecting how I live my life?

God doesn’t call you to perform better through sheer willpower; He invites you to receive His grace. Allow Him to transform you from the inside out. Your greatest growth won’t come from outward appearances or activities. It comes when God transforms what you love, forming you in your spirit so that the byproduct is the fruit of HIS Spirit.

Anywhere you feel pressure to perform and do more for God, ditch the “shoulds.” Slow down to receive more from Him instead. God is far more interested in your heart than in your performance.

4. Bring the Hard Stuff Back to the Holy Spirit

Inevitably, this process will unearth some areas of pain. Often we deconstruct or reconsider our beliefs because something stopped working.

• A belief failed you.
• Nasty church wounds left you wondering.
• Teachings about God made Him sound inconsistent or too hard to please.
• A lingering doubt sprung a leak, causing internal damage you couldn’t ignore any longer.

This is one of those “wash, rinse, repeat” moments. Bring those hard things back to the Holy Spirit. Ask Him to get involved. Inspect the beliefs that brought you to that point and what you carried away from it. Are those thoughts helping you or hurting you? Where do you need God’s help to know the difference? Approach any hurts with compassionate curiosity to better understand why that pain lingers.

And tune in tomorrow as we explore the role wounds play in reconstruction and how much your pain matters to God. (Spoiler: it matters a lot.)