Help My Unbelief - Blackaby Devotional
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
Mark 9:24
Faith does not come from ignorance. Faith is based on what we know.
Before we will trust others with something precious to us, we first try to find out if they are trustworthy. This father was asking that he might come to know God in such a dimension that he could trust Him to cure his son.
His son had been possessed by an evil spirit since early childhood. The father did not know Jesus well, but he had heard and seen enough to convince him that if there was any hope for his son, it lay with Jesus. In desperation he cried out to Jesus for help. Jesus’ response was to heal his son. The desperate father had correctly gone to Jesus with his problem even though he was struggling with his faith.
When you are struggling to believe, that is not the time to avoid Christ or to be ashamed of your struggle. You will never increase your faith by not going to Jesus! Rather, Jesus wants to the help you with your belief. He can not only meet your need, but He will also give you faith to trust Him to provide for you.
If you are struggling to believe that God can take care of your need, it is because you don’t know Him as He wants you to. Go to Him and allow Him to convince you of His ability to meet every need you will ever face.
Henry and Richard Blackaby
Experiencing God Day-by-Day
Y’know what’s weird? I almost wrote on this same topic yesterday. I always think it’s interesting when churches around the country seem to get onto the same topic without planning it (right now it seems to be “Consumed” or “finance” type topics).
Apparently that happens in the blogging world as well!
Christopher says:
Whenever a Blackaby devotional is posted it’s almost always because, I can see the gist of the message playing out in my life, or the Holy Spirit simply puts it on my heart that this is a “word” that needs to be shared.
Coincidence? I think not.
Better yet, to quote Albert Einstein: God does not play dice.
Grace and peace my friend