When Faith Fails: 10 Days Of Finding God In The Shadow Of DoubtSample

I can’t help but wonder if we’ve been looking at the Bible the wrong way. Maybe we’ve been so obsessed with how an ancient book resolves all of our historical, cultural, scientific, and moral questions that doubt has become inevitable. But what if its primary objective isn’t intellectual certainty but to lead us into a flourishing relationship with God?

Maybe we need to see the Bible less through modern eyes (How is it rational?) or postmodern eyes (How does it speak to me?). Maybe we need to accept it for what it is: an eccentric, weird, difficult, challenging, inspiring, inviting, paradigm-disrupting book that, page by page, story by story, culminates in the person of Jesus.

And if that’s true, then like any relationship, it takes time.

We need perseverance to dig past its ancient, crusty surface and so uncover truth.

And we need a ton of humility to reorient our thinking when that happens.

Either way, I find peace in knowing that its authors were also its doubters. They struggled too. But they continued walking the Emmaus road, because they believed that in the end it was all worth it. They had hope that someday, somehow, they would see their Messiah.

And that’s what makes the Bible not only something to trust, but something to live by.