There are moments in the Christian life when faith feels sturdy and sure, and others when it feels as thin as glass. Prayers seem to fall flat. Scripture feels dry. Christian music maybe doesn’t lift your heart as it once did.
For many Christians these seasons can be unsettling, even frightening. We can wonder whether something has gone wrong with our faith, or worse, with us.
The Bible, however, is remarkably honest about fragile faith. Scripture does not present a gallery of unbroken spiritual heroes, but real people who wrestled with God in weakness and doubt. The psalmist cries out: “Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?” (Psalm 42v5). This is not the voice of an unbeliever, but of someone who knows God and still feels far from Him.
Is our anger ever righteous?
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