When you meet Doubt

Don’t engage at all

He will speak many words

He will want you to fall.

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If you see Doubt

Just go silent

Smile and wave

He wants to talk non stop

He wants the final say!

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Keep Doubt silent

Stop the dialogue

Doubt wants to hear

You answer back

And stop

Believing God.

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Once you take 

His bait

He will reel you in,

You will talk on and on

Not realizing

It is him.

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Doubt is subtle

Hidden and smart

He works in

Planned increments

He doesn’t talk 

 Fast.

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He plants himself

Slowly 

Inside your rational mind

The questions he

Asks, seem

Loving and kind. 

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Did God

Really say that?

Doubt whispers at night

Can God be trusted?

Is He always right?

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Then suddenly!

Your week is over,

Doubt is still in your mind

He tried to stop you

Believing God,

He tried to make you blind!

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For seven days you

Engaged with Doubt

You had

No idea

He was there!

You were

Busy planning

To quit your dreams

You thought God didn’t care!

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As Doubt fed you more

You allowed him 

To speak

Your trust

in God

Was wavering

Your future dreams

Looked bleak.

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You kept shouting

More!

I need you Doubt today!

I must speak to you!

You have the final say!

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But stop

I say,

As a poet

Who cares for you!

What do

You think

Doubt is

Doing to you?

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You mildly say

Doubt is safe

Doubt is smart

He is my thought processes

Inside my heart!

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I cannot live without him!

Don’t you see?

Doubt helps me grow,

Just let me be!

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But this Doubt 

Was smart 

He made you blind

He was sent to you

By the Dark One

To attack God’s design.

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Some doubt is good. 

Healthy doubt 

Keeps you safe

You need doubt 

In life

It cannot be all perfect faith.  

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Good doubt helps you grow

Good doubt helps you learn

Good doubt can bring up red flags

Good doubt helps you discern.

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This good doubt though,

Has a small d

The big Doubt here

In my poem

Has a capital D.

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As a Christian poet

I shame Doubt today

You wanted to

Stay hidden,

You led

Many astray!

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I will shame

Doubt now

So we know

You are real,

You cripple

Christian lights

But Jesus

Comes to heal.

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I am a child 

Of God

Who knows

Jesus,

His way

Is always right,

Doubt 

Is a demon

Who provokes you,

He is never

In God’s light!

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Doubt

Is a presence,

Doubt 

Will steal,

Doubt

Is a dark spirit,

He is deceptive and real.

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He is a presence 

Not sent by God

He fights against the light

He wants 

To stop you 

Believing the Word,

He tells you he is right!

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So as a poet

I change my poem

To faith and trust today

Doubt met Faith,

Faith had the final say!

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She read God’s Word

She buried Doubt

She believed

God’s promises

Were true,

She picked up

Her dreams again

She also prayed for you.

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She spread God’s love

She squeezed your hand

She told you, never never quit!

You both prayed together

You rested just a bit.

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Goodbye Doubt

You both cried,

We know you are deceived!

You were fully exposed

In this poem today

But it’s God,

We believed!

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~Written by Helen Olenjin~