Faith & Doubt
I can feel my faith slipping away and I genuinely do not want it to. Is there anything I can actually do to stop it?
“A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.”
This belongs to a song about the servant God promises to send, written for people whose national and personal life had been flattened. The two images are things that are all but finished: a reed already crushed and a wick with no flame left, only smoke. The claim concerns how this servant handles what is nearly gone. He is not looking only for the strong.
“But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.”
Jesus says this to Peter hours before Peter denies him three times, knowing exactly what is coming. He does not prevent the failure and he does not pretend it will not happen. What he does is pray for Peter's faith beforehand and speak about the other side of it as a settled thing. Peter's collapse was real, and it was not final.
A path forward
Make no permanent decision about faith in this season. Tell yourself you will revisit it in six months and keep the ordinary practices in place until then.
Get yourself physically into a church service weekly even if you feel like a fraud sitting there. Belief is more communal than it feels, and drifting almost always starts with attendance.
Tell one person this week the exact sentence you just said: that you are losing it and do not want to. Ask them to pray for you and to check in every month.
Closing verse
“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,”
- Jude 1:24
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