The Benefit of Doubt: How Confronting Your Deepest Questions Can Lead to a Richer Faith

by Craig Groeschel

Heaven is life with God. Hell is life without God.

God doesn’t send people to hell. People choose hell.

taking a scientific, not faith-filled, approach. If you feel you have to have every right answer, you may be building your faith on a house of cards instead of on the person of Jesus Christ.

Like me, you are flawed. You are broken. You are wounded.

You may not feel attractive, athletic, talented, or smart enough. Doesn’t matter. You may be a raggedy old bear, but you are God’s raggedy old bear. You may not feel valuable

God loves you not because you are worthy but because you are his.

I love that Job had doubts (just as we all do at times), but he didn’t allow his doubts to define God.

Maybe God doesn’t explain everything because the answers are beyond us.

With choice one, you decide you’re done with God.

With choice two, you deny your questions.

The third option is to choose to say, “God, I’m still going to trust you. Even if it doesn’t make sense to me. Even if I don’t like it. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt.”