You need to make an important decision, but doubts gnaw at you? Follow the example of the Apostle Thomastranslated

Nobody likes to doubt. It's very uncomfortable. Doubts provoke anxiety, affect self-esteem, and sometimes completely paralyze the will. The Apostle James compares the doubter to a wave of the sea, tossed and tossed by the wind (James 1:6) and calls him a man of double minds (James 1:8). At the same time, there are situations when doubts, on the contrary, bring benefits, help to make the right decisions, and open new horizons. Which doubts are justified and which ones lead to a dead end? How to doubt correctly? And what can the example of the Apostle Thomas teach us? Let's figure it out.

Priest Evgeny MURZIN

editor of the direction "Faith and Church"

What if...

Let's imagine the following situation. A person wants to change his life, find himself in a new business. To do this, he needs to move to another city, get a new job, and move his family. And so he finds a place, finds out the salary and working conditions, the cost of housing, the level of school education for children, and job prospects for his wife. He is satisfied with everything and, it would seem, there is enough material to make a final decision.

But then doubts begin to creep into my head: what if in six months I realize that...