Do not believe me unless I
do the works of my Father. But if I do them, even though you do
not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the
Father is in me, and I in the Father.
Reflected from the verse
taken from John 10:31-42
The first thing that came to
my mind after hearing the gospel was little faith but more of doubt. We live in
a world that questions our being, our race, our religion, our morals and our
good deeds. We also experience being questioned when it comes to faith and how
we practice our beliefs. Some people don’t understand even if we explain it to
them. We are blessed to experience freedom and to be saved from the punishment
of our sins. We are not here on earth for nothing because we have a purpose to
fulfill and that we are destined for greatness.
Why is it difficult to
believe even after seeing the works of God?
Why really is it hard? God
already worked through us and still we continue to doubt His presence? Why?
Hmmmmmm.. I guess we are looking for big things to happen like a major major
miracle to take place in our life similar to the Jesus feeds the 5 thousand,
healing leprosy, allowing the blind to see, letting the deaf to hear, the
crippled to be able to walk or when He raised the dead. When we witness those
kind of events in the world we live in today, I guess it just shows how little
our faith is. Our faith is easily tested in what we see. We believe in the
"to see is to believe principle and that hinder us from believing in God
through His simple works. Through that doubt will always overpower the little
faith that we have.
Another reason would be when
we are controlled by our fears that held us captive to believe the reality
which is the real truth that's already in front of us. We refuse to believe because
we are following the standards of this world rather than of God's based on the
teachings in the Bible. We choose to please others but in reality, we can never
please anybody anyway and it's only God whom we can only please.
Doubt over weighs the little
faith that we have. Although we have seen still we allow questions to disrupt
our thinking. We are blinded and distracted by our thoughts, by social media,
by false judgment and by the things we hear around us. We have heard the words
of God yet we try harder to close our hearts from listening to Him. We harden
our hearts and we still choose to do what we think is right (but to others it's
already unjustly). We are highly influenced with the latest trends, the
gadgets, the popular things and even the immoral doings. The world is changing
and satan is taking advantage of our weaknesses and he keeps on tempting us for
our visions and goals to be cloudy and it gives us more worries. He's giving us
reasons to doubt even if we are already praying.
The only way to defeat doubt
is through our strong faith and the belief that He will answer our prayers no
matter how impossible they may be. We will be tested but we should place our complete
trust and total surrender to God that He will take care of everything for us. We
should be deeply rooted in Him knowing that apart from Him we are nothing. We
should maintain a constant prayer life and relationship with Him because that's
where we'll grow as a person and where we'll learn more from. We can be ready
for anything because we know God is in us and believe that He has plans for us,
a future full of hope. Let's live our life purposefully and meaningfully. Let's
make God happy through the works of our hands by bringing back the glory that
God alone deserves! Let’s conquer this victory with our faith by being faithful
to the one who is faithful and who never failed us. This journey of faith is
not going to be an easy task because obstacles of doubt will always be there to
challenge us but in the end it will be worth it. We will win because God is in
our side.
