{"id":472840,"date":"2025-02-26T02:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=472840"},"modified":"2025-02-26T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:44:00","slug":"doubts-about-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/doubts-about-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts about Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-eb79f367c6d93c65593fb3c55fd36a3e wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cSir,\u201d the woman said, \u201cyou have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?\u201d \u2014 John 4:11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that he could give her living water, her reply was full of doubt. We marvel at this story, because we know our Lord has told the woman the truth. But when it comes to our own lives, we aren\u2019t always so sure. \u201cI\u2019m impressed with the wondrous things he says,\u201d we think. \u201cBut in reality, they can\u2019t be done!\u201d<br>Where do our doubts about Jesus come from? They might spring from other people\u2019s doubts about the plans we\u2019ve made with God\u2014 their questions about where we\u2019ll get our money or how we\u2019ll live. Or we might plant the seeds of doubt ourselves, informing Jesus that our problems are too much, even for him.<br>What\u2019s really happening is that we\u2019ve confused Jesus\u2019s limitations with our own. We look at our own abilities to determine what Jesus can do, then panic when we see the depths of our own inadequacy. \u201cNo, no,\u201d we protest. \u201cI have no doubts about Jesus, only about myself.\u201d This is a pious kind of fraud. None of us are truly confused about ourselves: we know perfectly well what we can and can\u2019t do. But we do have doubts about Jesus. Sometimes we even act insulted by his power, as though we\u2019re hurt by the idea that he can do what we can\u2019t.<br>If you sense doubts about Jesus in yourself, bring them to the light and confess them: \u201cLord, I\u2019ve had doubts about you. I haven\u2019t believed in your strength apart from my own. I haven\u2019t believed in your almighty power apart from my finite understanding of it.\u201d Then ask God to take your doubts away.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSir,\u201d the woman said, \u201cyou have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?\u201d \u2014 John 4:11 When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that he could give her living water, her reply was full of doubt. We marvel at this story, because we know our Lord has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}