Some words I haven’t been able to get out of my mind since I sang them several weeks ago:

“They who trust him wholly
Find him wholly true.”

The phrase came back to me during a conversation with another believer. We sat together, tea in hand, and talked about the fact that sometimes it’s hard to believe God. How sometimes we feel like we can’t pray the prayer: “Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief,” because sometimes we get to such a dark place that we don’t know if we even do believe.

And so we pray anyway, “Lord, I want to believe. Help my unbelief.”

You know, there’s one thing both these prayers have in common, whether they’re coming from a place of weak faith or seemingly no faith:
they’re both directed to the Lord.

So you see that even the act of prayer itself—even the act of praying to God and confessing your unbelief—is an act of belief.
It is faith lived out.

And so there’s only one way to wrestle with doubt and come out believing. It is to take all your doubts and unbeliefs to God and ask him for help.

Those who trust him wholly find him wholly true. The more we trust, the more we realize he alone is worthy of our trust.

Trusting God doesn’t mean you never ask questions.
It means you come to God with your questions.

Believing God doesn’t mean your heart is free from doubt.
It means you bring your doubting heart to the only One who can give you faith.

So when you feel like you can’t hold on any longer, fall into his strong and capable hands. Throw your heavy cares on him. Unload all your baggage.

Because the harder you lean on him, the more you will feel his strength.

Scripture for meditation:

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (I Peter 5:6-8).

“When [Peter] saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased” (Matthew 14:30-32).

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted” (Hebrews 12:1-3).

“Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”” (Mark 9:23).