By Kayla DeKraker
Lev Bure, actress Candace Cameron Bure’s oldest son, went through a season of doubting God, something that many Christians experience.
“Three years ago, I went through probably like an eight-month period of like flat out doubt,” Lev revealed on his mom’s podcast while talking with her and pastor Jonathan Pokluda. “And it was like waking up and knowing the head knowledge and being like, ‘Why is it so difficult to believe?’ Like so bizarre and, you know, thoughts of like, ‘What if this isn’t real,’ you know?”
Interestingly enough, Lev faced these questions while in seminary studying the Bible.
“There were then all of these tiny little, theological questions that fed into, you know, the reality of doubt,” he added.
Despite his doubts, Lev found comfort in simple gospel truths.
“I was encouraged by the very, like, core, basic truths of the gospel, and even being comforted by you both that it’s okay to not know everything,” he said. “Just being encouraged by the simple truth of Christ. And, you know, community, I think, is so incredibly important. So having people to walk alongside me in that with my questions. My parents at the time being two of those people was huge.”
Candace chimed in, sharing that it is okay to have doubts.
“I’ve always said and encouraged that if you doubt, talk to God about it,” she said. “God’s not going to be scared of your doubt. You don’t make Him nervous. He’s not going to leave you or not love you.”
God has experienced people having doubts before, so it is not anything new to Him.
“And it’s nothing that He hasn’t dealt with before and doesn’t see,” she said. “So, if you doubt, talk to Him about it, pray about it. Confess it. ‘I’m doubting…I don’t want to doubt. I want to have faith in you.'”
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In John 20:27, Jesus speaks with Thomas, a man who doubted. The verse says, “Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.’”
God is patient, even in our doubts.
“…Doubts flee when we focus on Christ,” the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association wrote. “But when we become distracted and focus on other things, doubts will begin to grow. The Bible says, ‘Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee’ (Isaiah 26:3, KJV).”
This is such a beautiful reminder that even in our struggles and doubts, God is patient with us and will not leave us.
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