doubt is not failure

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
                                                         Fyodor Dostoevsky

Doubt is not failure.
Doubt is the absence of pride and self-reliance. It is the point were  we find ourselves at the end of our rope.

This is a good place to be.
The end of our rope is precisely where God's rope begins.

Jesus allowed Thomas to stare doubt square in the face.
The result?
The profession "my Lord, and my God"

We cannot shout praise to anything other than ourselves until we learn that there is One, Holy Other than ourselves who is deserving of our hour Hosanna. 

We cannot, however, stay in doubt.
We doubt when we listen to ourselves recount our failures
We trust when we talk to ourselves about God's victories. 

Our voices tell us it is impossible.
God's voice tell us differently.

Beloved. I pray you cry praise today...