elievable

Today’s question asks what it would mean if faith isn’t about believing harder, but about finally trusting who God really is — and if doubt doesn’t mean you’re failing, but that the picture you were given of God was too small to hold your questions.

Many of us learned a kind of faith that felt like effort: try harder, pray harder, be more certain, don’t ask too much. Doubt became a warning sign — something to suppress, hide, or feel ashamed of. If questions rose up, we assumed something was wrong with us.

But what if doubt isn’t the opposite of faith? What if it’s often the moment an inherited image of God begins to crack — not because we’re drifting from God, but because we’re outgrowing a version of Him that never matched His heart?

Real trust doesn’t grow by forcing yourself to feel sure. Trust grows when you begin to see God as trustworthy. And sometimes the most honest faith is simply bringing your questions into the light and refusing to pretend.

This is where the gospel becomes more than an idea. It becomes a Person. And faith becomes less about mental strain and more about relational surrender — the quiet, startling decision to believe that love is actually true.

If you’ve carried shame over questions, consider this: the goal may not be to silence fear with perfect certainty. The goal may be to let love become believable — slowly, truly, deeply — until trust starts to grow where fear once lived.

Faith may not begin when doubt disappears.
It may begin when you stop pretending.

And when you dare to believe that God is better than the picture you were given.