Bike Training

If someone said to me that they wanted to get really good and fit bicycle training, but would only ride with the wind at their back, I would be skeptical at their endeavor.  If you want to get really good at that you have to train going into the wind as well, and do some hills, up, that is.  They are only half training.  So it is with people who say they have no doubts in their faith.  That is the downhill, with the wind faith and not really much faith at all.  Most of those people are afraid to doubt because then they might not get what they want from the “gimme this, gimme that” prayers to their God, or they just like to feel safe with answers, and not dig too deep or dig at all.  I think that doubt is normal for the seeker who wants more than to feel good.  That is too self-centered.  Sometimes my doubts are not so much about the existence of God, but about the theology of my church.  I bring it all to prayer, not for answers, but for honesty.  Fear is useless.  Even the disciples of Jesus saw him alive after he beat death, and they still doubted.  That is a grown up faith.