My Unbelief

TODAY’S VERSE
‘“Have mercy on us and help us, if you can.’ What do you mean, ‘If I can?’ Jesus asked. ‘Anything is possible if a person believes.’
The father instantly cried out, ‘I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!”’
Mark 9:22-24 (NLT)

TODAY’S THOUGHT
How many times do I question God? I come up against a wall and I start to doubt. At first it seems like it is a doubt of God’s ability. I am like the person in today’s verse, “Have mercy on us and help us, if you can.” But do I really doubt His power? I believe in a God who can. I have read the Bible. I have read the accounts of God doing the miraculous. So what do I doubt? If I am honest I have to admit that I doubt God’s desire to help me. I doubt the depth and power of God’s love. The father was asking for mercy. He knew that God had the ability to be merciful. Perhaps what he was really asking was, “Be merciful if you can find it in your heart to do it.” It was more a question of God’s will than His ability. And I wonder which the bigger offense to God is? That I doubt His power or I doubt His will? I seem to doubt God’s love for me more than I do His ability to do great and mighty things. Either way, I find myself in conflict and must cry out to God saying the same thing the father did, “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!” Today, might we search our heart and believe both in God’s ability and desire.

TODAY’S PRAYER
Father, I believe but help my unbelief. Teach me more about You and Your great heart and desire so I can believe You for great and mighty things.
AMEN

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