Doubt is one of the fascinating points we reach in our personal growth, which may keep besetting us all through life. It may be defined in terms of uncertainties, mistrust, dubiousness, apprehension, suspicion or unbelief. Nothing real or visible has ever been birthed out by doubt. Whereas most of the stupendous inventions of the world were revolutionary shifts that were looked upon as empty ‘cans’, time and reality have shown that those hitherto despised ideas are MIGHTY ‘CANS’. With every reason to doubt, there’s also more than enough ground to trust the process.
Noted inventor Thomas Edison at the lightbulb’s golden jubilee anniversary banquet in his honor, Orange, New Jersey, Oct. 16, 1929, with a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp. Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images
Nobody could have ever believed that could move outside the earth or even walk on the moon, had Robert H. Goddard given up on his convictions. Furthermore, that rockets can help us travel through space might have forever remain an impossibility and NASA would never have been thought of. The benefits we now enjoy from the invention of the light bulb would have been buried with it, if Thomas Edison gave up on his vision.
In Biblical language, “doubt” connotes a state of being double-minded, wavering, lukewarm, or having “unbelief” (see Matthew 17:20; Mark 9:23, 24; James 1:6-8; Revelation 3:15, 16).
With much significance, the Holy Scriptures teaches by principle that, all the visible and invisible things, great lives of honorable men and women; all the envious achievements and extraordinary events of history, happened through the eye of FAITH translated by wings of action [Matthew 7:20; 21:18-22; Mark 11:22-24].
Doubt blinds our mind’s eye from possibilities and denies us of our right to seize the chances that come with it. The next time you are tempted to doubt, take a moment to look over again through the lens of faith, and you will be sure of reaching a more reasonable resolve.
Be blessed.
