FAITH CAPSULE: You will give earnest heed to what you have heard to deny doubt about your following Jesus.

Mathew 11

What is causing you to have doubt instead of having faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior?
With doubt, fear will settle in one’s life to make one upset. When fear rises, faith will sink.
Have faith which does not sink, by giving self to the word heard with more earnest heed to the things heard in the word of God. Romans 10:17 identifies the source of faith: “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Giving self to doubt is taking a position of neglecting the great salvation. Doubt does not respect any man but giving the more earnest heed to the evidence of God’s doing is more than able for any man to live life without doubt.
John the Baptist, in the prison of life, his doubt about Jesus crowded his life. The Bible records: “And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” (Matthew 11:2-3) Prison time in the life of John the Baptist, one that baptized Jesus became doubtful of who Jesus was.
The record of Matthew 3:13 was enough for John to remember and not to become doubtful, “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him”
Also, John the Baptist’s bears witness of Jesus was enough not to doubt as John 1:29-30 records: “…Behold The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.”’
If you will give earnest heed to what you have heard and see, the doubt should not a place in your life.
Imagine, John also exalted Jesus but his doubt denied him to remember what he said to Jesus as stated: “He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.” (John 3:31)
The challenging time, of John the Baptist demonstrated that he knew about Jesus, but did not know Jesus because of his doubt.
Regardless of challenging times, get to know Jesus by giving earnest heed not to be doubtful.
Jesus’ response to John’s doubt speaks to all with doubts: “…Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” (Mathew 11:4-6)
With doubt, faith will have a tendency to drown.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength of God to keep you so that your faith will not fail.