Most of us have to admit that from time to time we go through times of doubt.

The problem is there have been so many prevailing thoughts and teaching about how to deal with doubt that are not necessarily biblical.

Let me give you some of those prevailing teachings and attitudes about doubt.

Some say doubt is a sin and you must never allow it to even cross your mind.

Others have said that doubt must be so uprooted permanently that you will never experience it again.

Well, the question is, what is the biblical teaching about doubt?

The Bible teaches that from time to time, depending on when you are in life, doubt can creep in

to all of us.

The question is what you do with it and how you deal with it and when you

deal with it is the most important thing. What do you do? You ignore it? No. Do you accept it? No.

Do you believe it? No. Do you believe it? No.

Doubt must be faced head on.

Doubt must be dealt with immediately.

Doubt must be acknowledged honestly.

Doubt must be processed and reasoned out.

Now, don't misunderstand me.

Doubt is frightening.

It really is.

And that is why the brother of the Lord Jesus Christ, James, tells us in chapter 1,

verses 7 and 8, he said, the habitual doubter, the continuous doubter, the person who lives in doubt

is a double-minded man and is troubled in all his ways.

Why do I tell you that doubt must be dealt with and acknowledge decisively and immediately?

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