What do we do with doubt? It's easy to think that doubt is the opposite of faith. If you have doubts, that must show a lack of faith. In a world where so many are deconstructing their faith, doubt can feel like the first crack in what you thought was a solid foundation. Isn't faith supposed to be about absolute certainty? When you open up the pages of scripture, you find a much different story. You see people with doubts and uncertainty and a God who meets them in their doubts. In Psalm 73, we see an entire Psalm dedicated to the Psalmist lifting his doubts to the Lord in prayer and finding a deeper, more resilient faith on the other side. Join us as we walk through how to take our doubts to God and find a deeper, more resilient faith on the other side.

Psalm 73:1-3, 12-26

1 Truly God is good to Israel,

to those who are pure in heart.

2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,

my steps had nearly slipped.

3 For I was envious of the arrogant

when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

12 Behold, these are the wicked;

always at ease, they increase in riches.

13 All in vain have I kept my heart clean

and washed my hands in innocence.

14 For all the day long I have been stricken

and rebuked every morning.

15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would

have betrayed the generation of your children.

16 But when I thought how to understand this,

it seemed to me a wearisome task,

17 until I went into the sanctuary of God;

then I discerned their end.

18 Truly you set them in slippery places;

you make them fall to ruin.

19 How they are destroyed in a moment,

swept away utterly by terrors!

20 Like a dream when one awakes,

O Lord, when you rouse yourself,

you despise them as phantoms.

21 When my soul was embittered,

when I was pricked in heart,

22 I was brutish and ignorant;

I was like a beast toward you.

23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you;

you hold my right hand.

24 You guide me with your counsel,

and afterward you will receive me to glory.

25 Whom have I in heaven but you?

And there is nothing on earth

that I desire besides you.

26 My flesh and my heart may fail,

but God is the strength of my heart

and my portion forever.