“And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief — the most honest prayer in the Gospels: the simultaneous assertion of faith and confession of insufficient faith. I do believe acknowledges the real faith that brought him to Jesus and has sustained him through years of hoping. Help me overcome my unbelief acknowledges that the faith is not complete, not sufficient in itself, not free from doubt. The prayer is addressed to Jesus — help me — making Jesus the source of the faith, not merely its object. The father asks for faith as a gift, not merely as an achievement.
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