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Day 56 of 60 · What is in the way

Help My Unbelief

Open your Bible and read Mark 9:14-29

“Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, 'I believe; help my unbelief!'”

Mark 9:24 · ESV

Maybe you have done thirty plus days of this and there are still questions you cannot close. Suffering. Hell. Parts of the Old Testament that trouble you. Other religions and why this one.

Those are serious questions and they deserve better than being waved off. Good people have written whole books on each, and none of it will get tidied up in a paragraph here.

So look at this father. His son was suffering, he came to Jesus, and what he managed to say was a contradiction. I believe. Help my unbelief. Both at once, out loud, no pretending.

Jesus did not send him away to sort out his position first. He answered him. You do not need certainty to take a step. You need honesty. Faith has never meant having no questions, it means moving toward Someone while you still carry them.

Do this today

Write down the questions you still cannot answer, keep the list, and take one to a Christian you trust.

An honest thing to say to God

“God, part of me believes and part of me does not. Help my unbelief.”