ASLC Devotions - Monday

Ezekiel 1:1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

This past week, Pastor Jenn and I received letters written by some of our Sunday School students. Apparently, they had been learning about Doubting Thomas and the concept of doubt in general. So they wrote private letters to their pastors asking about doubt. Because they were private letters, I won't say more... But they did cause me to think a little bit more about doubt than I normally would on a Thursday afternoon, as I set about to compose responses to the letters I received. And, once more, I began to wish that I the kinds of visions that Bible people seem to have had.

Ezekiel would have had a hard time doubting, I imagine. He saw the heavens opened, I tell myself. He knew that he saw visions of God, I tell myself. So of course he didn't doubt. Except that's not the whole story. He as among the exiles by the river Chebar. He was with people who had lost everything God had promised them: their homes, their families, their nation, their independence. And they doubted. Ezekiel doubted. Later in his book he doubts right to God's face during the vision. So I think doubt is just part of the human condition. Doubt is part of the faith condition. It is always with us. We doubt, and we believe. And we pray each day for our faith to be built.

In Christ,
Pastor Seth

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