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What to Do With Doubt
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hands to lead us the rest of the way. His heart of love will do what is
best for us.
The Word of God, like the One who gave it, can never be fully
understood. We cannot fully explain the sad story of how sin came
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into the world. We are not able to understand how the Son of
God became a man. Nor can we understand just how we are made
righteous and how we will be raised from the dead. But we must
not doubt God’s Word because we cannot understand some things it
tells us about.
In the natural world are many things we cannot explain. The
wisest people cannot fully understand the smallest forms of life.
Everywhere are wonders we do not understand. Should we then be
surprised to find things in the spiritual world that we cannot explain?
Our minds are too weak and narrow to reach these higher thoughts.
God has given us enough reasons to believe that the Scriptures are
inspired.
The apostle Peter spoke about letters Paul had written. He said,
“There are some difficult things in his letters which ignorant and
unstable people explain falsely.... So they bring on their own destruc-
tion.”
2 Peter 3:16
. Parts of the Scriptures are hard to understand.
Because of these parts, some people say they do not believe the
Bible. But the hard parts really show us that the Bible is from God.
We cannot understand everything about God in the Bible because our
minds are not as great as His. His greatness and goodness cannot be
fully understood by human minds. The very grandness and mystery
of the Bible should help us to have faith in it as the Word of God.
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The Bible brings us truth that satisfies the needs and desires of
every heart. This truth is given in such a simple and interesting way
that it surprises and pleases the best minds. Yet it makes clear even
to humble and uneducated people how they can be saved. These
simply stated truths also touch on subjects that are too hard for us to
understand. We accept them only because God spoke them.
God’s plan by which we are saved—the plan of redemption—is
opened up to us in the Bible. We all may see the steps we must take
in repentance toward God. We are shown the faith that we must have
in our Lord Jesus Christ if we want to be saved.
Yet beneath these truths that are easily understood are mysteries
that need much study. We must search the Scriptures to find answers.