How Doubt Cancels Our Faith

Does the action of doubt erase the action of faith and its fruit? 

I asked this of my husband recently, because this was something I had been thinking about.

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to all without reproach and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, WITH NO DOUBTING, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways." (James 1: 5-7)

Well, crumb. Reading this scripture it kind of looks that way.
Being double minded means that our loyalties are split. It is sorta like being a dual spy or double agent. God does not employ double agents. He wants all or nothing. He wants consistency.

While doubt is often a stepping stone to uncover truth, it commonly derails and weakens our faith in the truth.

What about this: “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” (Hebrews 11:6)

Faith should not waver. It's believing in what we cannot see with our eyes. It must be undefiled by doubt.

It is no easy thing to live out. In fact it's downright silly in the eyes of the world. Logic says you're a bit of a dummy if you believe in something you can’t touch or see manifested. Logic has destroyed a lot of faith in God. Self-preservation has destroyed a lot of faith in God.
 
But, the Lord did say, that whomever wants to “live” must die to themselves. How strange that phrase can sound. He was talking about surrender, but it sounds so paradoxical.

So, is our Faith journey similar to the game Chutes and Ladders? Where we move forward a few squares but then hit a slide (doubt) and go backwards? Perhaps.
 
What I do know is that to grow with God, we must develop faith and keep it growing.
I am not going to talk about how to keep building faith here, but only that this is probably one of the most important things we can be doing in our lives as christians.

God doesn’t share his loyalty with any other god or idol.  This should be very sobering to us.  All of our devotion and belief must be given to the God who created us.

A man or woman who doubts is not trusting. I am not talking about doubting a car that is giving symptoms of dying. I am talking about placing all our bets on God and His promises.

Here's another verse that should cause us all to pause.  
“So, because you are neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth…”  (Revelation 3:16.)

Is our faith and devotion lukewarm, mediocre or tepid?
 
We must ask ourselves this question. Because it's a pretty big deal to God.  And whatever is a big deal to God, better be a big deal to us.

We have faith in a lot of things. And we don’t often second guess the faith we have put into them.
 
Our quest here on earth is to have faith in God that is as big as a mustard seed. And what a shame it is that us humans have such a hard time in having faith as big as that micro seed?
I’m not pointing fingers here—I am in this with you.

We don’t want to constantly be taking the chute down to another lower level—but we must be aware of our minds and mouths and what they are thinking and saying in order to not keep killing the faith we were building.

I’m getting off the doubt tilt’a whirl. What about you?