06/14/2026
Doubting God's Will Devotional - Psalm 77
Doubting God’s Will often comes from the depths of our despair, like when we or someone we love gets a difficult diagnosis. We then ask God, “Why can’t you do something, Lord? Couldn’t you help us?” Help is a petition and a trigger of hurt, doubt, fear, and despair. Asaph, struggled with both fear and despair. He doubted God’s will because he didn’t get the answers to prayers that he wanted! This doesn’t happen to us, does it? It has happened to me.
Like Asaph, who cried out to God, we struggle, and anytime we have these doubts, we pray that God will listen! We all doubt. It is not sinful or wrong. There’s not a person who has not called out to God! Doubt is often a catalyst for new spiritual growth. Vvs 3-7 also say, 3 ”We also celebrate seasons of suffering, then we develop endurance, 4 which shapes our character. 5 ...we think of the good old days, 6 long past. 7 There’s a difference now.”
DOUBT FALLS INTO FOUR CATEGORIES:
1) Intellectual Doubts: When we get a diagnosis beyond our capacity to comprehend, we go numb. As believers, we pray to get through all the doubts that come from intellectual questions. Here’s the interesting part: they are usually doubts of negativity; they’re not coming from God, are they? They’re either raised by people who question what God has done for them and they are secular or worldly, not godly expectations!
2) Spiritual Doubts: These doubts tend to be of churchgoers who are only trying to help us sort out our dilemmas. However, we sometimes do not feel very Christ-like. Someone told me to get over it – regarding my problem!! At times I have the same doubts as you do. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer as to why God seems to allow some people to carry more burdens than others. He cares because He loved His Son Jesus enough to die on a cross for our sins! The Bible says this: “Jesus was despised and rejected, a man of sorrows acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3).
3) Circumstantial Doubts: “The Why Me’s.” Where was the Lord when I needed Him? Sometimes the toughest doubts of all are the ones we can’t deal with, as they get swept under the rug. When we refuse to deal with situations beyond our control like concrete doubts, spiritual doubts, intellectual doubts, or impatience, we are only human. When we start overthinking, or wonder about our faith; then the doubts start. God, why me? Doesn’t Kris Kristopherson’s song Why Me, Lord come to mind?
4) Impatience: Some of us, me included, pray for God to intervene, and then we wait, and nothing happens. We often forget that prayers are answered in God’s timing, not by our wishes, wants, or by waiting impatiently. When the doubts about God’s love and mercy creep in, ignore them. God is the Creator. It is His will, and His way.
Doubting God’s Will is primarily what we do when all else fails. Three things as I end: 1) Many think that doubt is the opposite of faith; it’s not. Unbelief is the opposite. 2) Many think doubt is unforgivable; it’s not. God doesn’t condemn us when we question him. He can take it! Job and David repeatedly questioned God, and He did not condemn them. God is big enough to handle our doubts and fears. 3) Many think struggling with God means that we don’t trust him, that we lack faith. It may be true in some cases. But Doubting God’s Will, is also a sign of reaching our faith potential. If we never struggle, our faith will never grow strong.
We aren’t alone; look at the biblical figures who doubted.
• Abraham and Sarah doubted God when He told them they’d have a son in their old age. Sarah laughed in disbelief because it seemed biologically impossible until it wasn’t. God asked Abraham why she laughed because nothing is too hard for God (Gen 18:13-14).
• Moses argued with God, offering excuses about why he was unqualified for the Exodus. He obeyed and went anyway.
• Doubting Thomas’ disbelief in Jesus’ resurrection – he had to see the scarred hands, feet, and side of Jesus to believe He was alive.
Finally, how do we overcome our doubts and fears? 1) Forgive first as Jesus forgave us, then pray and wait patiently for the answer. 2) Obey Christ, by dismissing what is wrong and clinging to the truth. 3) Doubt begins in our minds but we have the power to decide whether they reside or live there! 4) Jesus’ divine power gives us everything we need for a godly life through knowing His glory and goodness (2 Peter 1:3). 5) Set aside time with the Word of God. It's that simple, turn your doubts into victory. says “Now to him who is able to do more than we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work in us...to Him be the glory... (Eph 3:20-21a) and because God’s ways are holy (Ps 77:13).
Prayer: May we delight in the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand. We will remember the deeds of the Lord & may we remember all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds. Because Your ways, God, are holy.
Music: Waymaker by Leeland
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