I believe; help my unbelief!” These words, spoken to Jesus by the father of a child suffering from convulsions (Mark 9:24), have been my own prayer long than I can remember.
In his 1519 “Sermon on Preparing to Die,” Martin Luther encourages us not to be troubled by questions and doubts but to focus instead on God’s promises. Luther grasped that the life of faith is not about answers; it’s about relationship. Faith is not religious knowledge. Faith is trust—trust that God is for me, for you, for us.
This message is an excerpt from “When faith doesn’t come easy” by Kathryn A. Kleinhans in the September 2017 issue of Gather magazine. Today we remember Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr, who died in 1156.
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