I think many people who love God deeply are the ones most likely to experience these struggles. Doubt and burnout often come from caring, not from indifference.
Scripture is full of people who loved God and still asked hard questions, felt exhausted, or expressed frustration. That doesn’t cancel faith; it exposes how relational faith really is. Relationships strain under pressure, and honesty is often a sign of engagement, not abandonment.
For me, the danger isn’t doubt itself, but pretending it isn’t there. When doubt or resentment gets buried instead of acknowledged, it tends to harden. When it’s brought into the light, it can actually deepen trust over time.
There is nothing wrong with having doubts or questions about what one believes, so long as one is willing to find and accept answers.
Doubt and questions need answers not to be ignored.
Burnout is due to trying to do too much for too long without adequate support or opportunities to rest. Christian Worker burnout is the responsibility of what ever oversight there is for those workers.
I think we just need to look at David to know that burnout and resentment can exist in the life of a Christian. He expresses both in his psalms. You also mentioned doubt and by that I think you mean doubt that God exists or doubt that you are saved. Can you explain what is meant by ‘doubt’?
@ellenvera Good morning. The importance is to know God’s love for us, that he gave his Son, Christ Jesus for us when we were yet sinners. Man’s love is usually based on condition. Yet those that reject his Son is not shown the same love. This is because they are outside of his grace. The promises of God is yes and amen. Yet God is merciful to all and he loves all.
As for our love for God, you are asking can our love “for God” weaken in that we aren’t as enthused in the things of God as we were before because there are struggles with doubt or a lack of trust, a feeling of being burned out, or believe that you have been mistreated in some way. Usually when that happens, I believe that it’s because we have shifted the blame onto God instead of putting our trust in God. Things come about because this world is in opposition with the Kingdom of God. Because of Sin, things occur that aren’t pleasant, things that we have to war against, things that could become a wait on us. But we have hope and it is to be in the Lord Jesus. We are given strength when we are weak. We have faith to believe in his Word and Word is true. Situations don’t change this. We are to go to our helper, not away from him. Adam went away and hid. We aren’t to ever turn away from the very one that can help. I have used this example with my kids in that if someone was after them and they believed that we, their parents can and will help them, they wouldn’t run away from us because they know that we are us. So, they would run to us. And they aren’t to blame us because these things exist. These things exist but we have hope in Christ Jesus which the world does not have. It isn’t that we just allow any and all things either. We pray for one another. We encourage one another. We thank our father who loves us. And we continue forward and upward.
That is a good question whether the person is having doubt that they are born again, which I hope that it is known that our salvation is not based on our feelings, nor does it change what Christ has fully achieved for us in that we have eternal life.
I mentioned doubts or questions about what and why one believes.
That covers, in my opinion all types of questions and doubts.
In acknowledging that there is no shame or sin in having them should encourage people to search for answers.
If you have a legal query one doesn’t start a legal education, but one talks to a legal expert.
The same thing applies to Christian belief, if an atheist’s challenge raises problems, then one should either talk to an expert or start reading books on that subject.