We are filled with unbelief all the time. Even as Christians, it haunts us on a regular basis.
We purchase a new car, and the first day we have it on the road, we shift into gear, and it fails to go into low. We have no power, and it barely moves down the road.
It’s brand new and broken. We cry, no, this can’t be happening, and we try everything we know in hopes the fault is ours, and the car is fine.
We live with disbelief until we sit stranded on the side of the road, proving the issue is real.
Those of us going about our daily lives on September 11, 2001, know what we’re talking about. We saw the airplane crash into the first World Trade Tower, and we looked away from our computers, thinking, there’s no way. Yet, eventually we had to accept the truth. Terrorism had struck at the heart of America’s most beloved city.
Isaiah 53:1 says, “And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
Genesis 3:1 tells us, “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field.”
John 20:19 reveals that “the disciples were [in] fear of the Jews.”
Even those who walked with Jesus were filled with unbelief. What they knew to be true simply didn’t match the facts around them. The Christ was their redeemer, yet they watched him die upon the cross.
We have to come to terms with the truth. That broken car? A Fort Worth couple bought a Cadillac with fewer than 20 miles on the clock, and they didn’t make it home. 9-11? We still deal with the fallout today. Jesus’ death on the cross? The disciples were justified in needing time to see the truth.
We can sit in the crux of unbelief, and God doesn’t condemn us. He gives us time, and when we are ready, we move back into the power of his love and acceptance.
We become one with him once again.
Disbelief is fine. Refusing to move past it when confronted with the truth cuts God to the quick.
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