Give God Time

There is a prayer in the Bible that is profoundly human: "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief." A desperate father, with a sick son, asks Jesus to help him. And in his brutal honesty, he tells the truth: "I believe... but I also have doubts."

And Jesus does not reject him. He doesn't say, "Come back when you have more faith." He helps him exactly where he is: in the tension between faith and doubt.

If you have doubts about God, about faith, about the church, you are not disqualified. You're being honest. And honesty is the ground where God does His best work. The people who most impress Jesus in the gospels are not those who have perfect faith, but those who are honest about their imperfect faith.

Giving God time does not require absolute certainty. It requires openness. It requires saying, "I don't have all the answers, but I'm willing to search." That's enough. That is faith.