My Unbelief (a meditation on Maundy Thursday).

~ Originally Published March 24, 2016

Maundy Thursday.

Driving past a church, I noticed the message on their sign: God is about to do something good.

Experience has proven this to be true. So why is it so hard to believe when things get rough?

Saint Peter had the guts to jump out of a boat, had first-hand experience of walking on water and, most importantly, had Jesus standing right in front of him. So why in the world would he lose his faith and just focus on the wind and waves below, which only caused him to sink?

And why do so many Christians keep doing the exact same thing almost 2,000 years later?

It’s because our faith is always imperfect and never complete.

The older I get, the more frequently I find myself repeating a father’s short prayer from Mark 9:24.

It is a paradox, mysterious and contradictory…and yet on an instinctive level, I know exactly what it means.

Jesus said to him, “All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “Lord, I do believe, help my unbelief!”

On Sunday morning, God IS going to do something great but before that you have to go through Thursday, Friday and Saturday... and it's going to feel like hell.

"Lord, I do believe. Help my unbelief!"