There is a difference between what we are inclined to think and what we choose to believe. The former is often involuntary, while the latter is an act of the will.
Rather than feeling ashamed of our human notions about life and spending our energy swatting at them, it is better to accept them as part of being human and focus instead on affirming our beliefs despite them. God told Abraham, greatly advanced in age, that he was going to have a son. Abraham’s human thoughts were about how his body and his wife’s body were pretty much spent, which was a very natural way of looking at the situation. Rather than trying to act like he was beyond those human thoughts, he embraced them. And rather than feeling ashamed of thinking such things, he instead chose to believe God was able to perform above them and accomplish what He had promised.
Let us not allow the evil one make us feel guilty about being human or thinking like one. Instead, let us accept our human inclinations and choose to fix our eyes on the One who can help us believe beyond them.
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