The Seed Blog: When Your Faith Falters

How many of you have ever had a really trying time in your life that has made you question your faith? Where you question everything you have built your life and beliefs upon; throwing you deeper into anxiety and worry; leaving you uprooted, and often in a private hell that you won't talk about to others? Sometimes leaving you on the threshold of walking away...then you begin to wonder how God, if He exists, must feel about you right now...and you are overrun with guilt—you know God is angry and disgusted—you feel unworthy, dirty, incapable of being used again; then you begin to wonder why, if God exists, would He even let you be tested to a point where you even could lose your faith, because you are not supposed to be tested beyond what you can handle, right? And here you are feeling abandoned by God, and it is beyond what you think you can handle. And, now that you have these doubts, how are you supposed to ever get that faith and trust back again? Does any of this hit home with where you have been at some time? Any of it hit home with where you may secretly be now? If you have ever been there; if you have ever experienced those thoughts and feelings—take heart—you are not alone! God was not surprised, He saw this day long ago; He is not offended, and has not lost His love for you. There is a Scriptural answer for how to handle it all…