In Descartes' work Meditations, the narrator realizes that the everything he has ever believed in is now being doubted. He resolves to destroy every preconceived notion he's ever simply assumed and rebuild his notions around what can be proved as certain. Yet, as Descartes starts to examine the world around him and questions everything around him, everything starts looking shaky. He doesn't know what to trust anymore. Senses such as sight and sound, used since he was a young boy, can no longer be trusted, his senses could be lying to him. Descartes even starts questioning the presence of God, for all he knows, God could merely be an evil demon, deceiving him and telling him lies about the world. Descartes then realizes that there is nothing left to believe in. He is all alone in the world.
It finally makes sense to me how Descartes could question everything around him.
I do it every time I doubt God and his power. I begin doubting God's plans for me, basically stating that I am doubting in God's almighty power.
What if this happens? What if this doesn't happen? How can I trust that this is what will happen?
I doubt everything about me
Am I capable of doing this? How can I spread God's love? I am merely a little girl. There's nothing special about me.
I doubt God
Is this really God talking to me? Am I imagining things? Why would He want me to do this?
And then I'm left with nothing.
It is in the nothing when we realize that there must be something bigger out there.
