Most, if not all, Chris-their have their moments when they doubt their faith. We should not be surprised. After all, God is truly impenetrable. The goings on of the spiritual world are not easy to grasp.

     Besides, much of what we believe cannot be proven by reason; in fact, often reason rebels against what our faith tells us is so. Like Christ rising from the dead, for instance. Yet that is exactly what Easter Sunday is all about. It’s about the promise of eternal life.

     But try telling this to a true atheist. I think many of us have our moments when we are “little atheists.” You know, those times when we find ourselves not believing because of strong doubts. Then the pendulum swings back and we believe once again.

     We should not get upset when this happens. Our intellect is always looking for proofs even when proofs are unavailable. It’s just the way we are made.

     Even Thomas, the disciple of the Lord, who had seen countless miracles performed by Christ, refuse to believe that He had risen from the dead until he put his fingers into the wounds of Christ. Despite being a witness to so many marvelous happenings, he too had his moments.

     C.S. Lewis, the writer, was once an atheist. After finding God in his newfound faith, he wrote:

     “Now faith, in the sense in which I am using the word, is the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes.

     “I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian, I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist, I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

     “This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway. This is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods ‘where to get off,’ you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion. Consequently one must train the habit of faith.”

     As we follow Christ through this momentous week, we need to ask Him to strengthen our faith. I remember a very sincere man who was spiritual in many ways saying to me: “I envy you because it’s so easy for you to believe. I want so much to believe, but I can’t.”

     Faith is a precious gift that we need to guard. It is something we must thank God for every day. It is something that we should be reminded of as we follow Christ on His way to Calvary. It is something we must rejoice in as we watch Him rise from the dead.