Seeds of Doubt
Now, you can pretty much guarantee that if you plant carrot seeds, you get carrots, right? Have you ever planted seeds, expecting to get carrots and end up with radishes?
Maybe once in a while you switch up the seeds and get a little surprise, but more often than not, if you plant carrots, you get carrots!
In the same way, if you live daily planting seeds of doubt in your life, the doubt in you will grow. What is it that you doubt?
Maybe it’s doubting what you are good at, doubting that things will work out, doubting God’s love for you. Instead, I want to encourage you to be planting seeds of FAITH. Many times it is easier to feed the doubt, allowing it to grow. It sometimes takes hard work to focus on our faith and help it to grow.
Matthew 17:20 says, “...I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Did you hear that? NOTHING is impossible for you. When we put the doubts away and focus on the faith that we have in Jesus, we can move mountains. Your faith journey doesn’t have a destination. Your heart doesn’t have to be in just the right place to be able to rely on that faith, instead of the doubt.
In Jeremiah 29:11-13, God tells us, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
He has a plan for you! He doesn’t doubt you, he doesn’t think you are unable to fulfill the wonderful plan that he has for you. So place your faith in God and trust that he has you in his hand. He wants you to know that you are able to move mountains with your faith in him.
Take those seeds of doubt you’ve been planting and cover them up in faith. Shower them with the love that God has for you, give them the sun from the grace we receive through Jesus, to help the seeds of faith flourish over the seeds of doubt. They may be there, we are of course human, but be intentional about which seeds you take care of. They will be the ones to grow.
by: Heather Brickhouse, Ministry Associate