When doubt feels like the wrong answer

Have you ever wanted to believe something - really wanted to - but just couldn’t quite get there?

That’s where the disciples were, the week after Easter. They’d heard the news. They’d been told Jesus was alive. But they were still hiding behind locked doors, afraid, unsure, not quite ready to trust what they hadn’t yet seen for themselves.

I find that oddly comforting.

This week on Battle Drill Daily Devotional, I’m exploring seven angles from that story - not as a theological exercise, but because I think it speaks directly into the kind of life most of us are actually living. The fear we carry into Monday morning. The doubts we’re a bit embarrassed to admit. The longing for something that feels like real peace, not just the absence of noise.

We’ll look at Thomas - who gets a bad press but was really just the last one to catch up. We’ll sit with the wounds Jesus chose to keep. We’ll think about what the word “shalom” actually means, and why it’s so much bigger than we’ve been told. And we’ll end with something Jesus said that was, I think, aimed directly at us.

Each video is around five minutes. You don’t need any background in faith to follow along - just an open mind and maybe a quiet few minutes in the morning.

You can find the full series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRCAfiHehjUmUljUcX7SggAYElZlMIg1f

I hope it meets you where you are.

Rob