We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. Douglas Adams
These humorous words from Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy some of the very few you will read that cast doubt as a positive.
Doubt is mostly viewed as a negative trait or as even as the opposite of faith. We think this way largely because we imagine doubt and faith in still life, or rigidly defined – devoid of motion. Such attempts at crystallization lose sight of the inner dynamics and play when we struggle with doubt. When we doubt, a number of forces arise within us: curiosity, fear, urgency, to name only a few.
These forces compel us to know – to experience – and to do so we act. We move. We seek answers. We position ourselves to see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears.
Doubt drives the struggle – without it we would never see potentiality give birth to actuality. This is precisely why God does not present himself as an irrefutable fact. He wants us to struggle. He wants us to be curious and to move toward Him. He wants us to pursue him until, like the moth whose new wings are strengthened by its endeavor to escape the cocoon, we emerge transformed into a new creation that exchanges the rigidity of an earthbound life for the boundless skies.
Today we will rediscover the nature and purpose of doubt – and how to allow it to serve as a positive force for transformation.
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