How can someone believe and
yet have unbelief? When I was younger, this really used to confuse me. I
thought that, well, you either believe or you don’t. It wasn’t until I was
having a conversation with one of my sons that it started to make sense. We
were discussing about God providing a need that mostly concerned him. I mentioned
that God had always taken care of us and that I wasn’t too worried about it. We
have always tried to share with our kids how God has provided through the
years. He confided that he knew that God took care of my wife and I, but that
he wasn’t sure He would do it for him.
I think that was where this
man was. He had seen, or at least heard about all the healings that Jesus had
done. Maybe he was already convinced that He was the Messiah. He believed that
he could; I think the unbelief was that he wasn’t sure that Jesus would do it
for him personally.
One of the greatest walls
our children will face is whether they believe in God because we told them, or because
they have experience Him themselves. It’s not new. Jacob had to make the
transition from the “God of my father” to calling Him “Lord”.
So how does one make this
transition? It begins with a small step of faith. As we draw closer to God and
walk daily with Him, He draws near to us. Our faith grows. As we struggle
through trials, we learn to trust more. As we experience God’s provision, He
becomes more personal to us. It doesn’t happen overnight, but before you know
it, things that you thought were insurmountable, now don’t seem so big. He helps
our unbelief.
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