All faith must have a little doubt mixed in ... Otherwise it's just flabby sentimentality.

Dr. Loveless
The Wild, Wild West

Do you have faith in God ... beyond a shadow of a doubt? Are you rock-solid sure of your faith? If you are, you'd fall under the category of "flabby sentimentality" that Dr. Loveless warned James West about.

Faith without doubt is flabby, unreal, an illusion. Faith without doubt is untested, a romantic notion that will eventually be crushed by the hard realities of life.

Faith with doubt mixed in is strong, resiliant, firm in the face of challenges. Why? It's your doubt that keeps you searching for the perfect will of God in your life. If you're sure of everything, why keep searching? Why talk to God on a daily basis if you're certain of everything you need to know? Why read your Bible if you're certain you know everything there is to know?

Just as your body gets stronger when you work out, a strong faith is a faith that's exercised. You exercise your faith by questioning things. You exercise your faith by taking it out daily and measuring it against the daily events around you. Where is God in your life? How would you know what God was asking of you, prodding you to do if you kept your faith on the shelf and refused to take it down and use it?

Faith that sits around, sure of itself is like a lazy human being .. eventually it becomes flabby.

Test your faith, exercise it daily. Like your body, sometimes it might hurt from the strain, but the exercise ultimately strengthens your faith.

With a strong faith we are promised that we will run and not be weary, we shall walk and not faint. [Isaiah 41:31]

Blessings,
Candace