Is it okay to question what you believe?

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Is it okay to question what you believe? As a kid, I thought I was going to hell if I questioned what people taught me about God. Back then I was told to do things simply because I said so. And if I pushed back or had questions, whether it was teachers, friends, family, I'd often get in trouble. So, when people would say, "God would never give you more than you can bear." I just trusted them. But then when I felt like I was dying inside because I was facing something that felt harder than I could handle, I didn't know what to do with that. So, then when I was 19, I was a counselor at a Christian summer camp. I hadn't really read the Bible. I just basically believed everything anyone ever told me about God. And here I was leading kids at a Christian summer camp. And then one night, the co-counselor that was helping me led a devotional with the kids and asked them, "Did you know it's okay to question what you believe?" And that rocked me. Because again, my whole life up to that point, I thought I would go to hell if I questioned what I believed. I had a conversation with him after and he started to show me what God actually said in the Bible, taking me to scriptures. And I started to see that a lot of the things that I believed about God that I learned from other people were wrong. For example, this whole thing where God will never give you more than you can handle, it's taken from this. God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But, when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. It doesn't say God won't give us more than we can handle. Just that when we're feeling tempted to do something bad, God will always give us a way out. And then of course, it's our choice if we want to take it. And honestly, that didn't convince me at first. I thought maybe I'm just understanding it wrong and everybody else got it right. But then, literally the next book of the Bible, we see this. We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure far beyond our ability to endure. God won't give us more than we can handle? The Bible says the pressure they faced was far beyond their ability to endure it. But, this happened so we might not rely on ourselves, but on God. You can see how that's different, right? That led me on a journey through reading the Bible for myself and aligning my life to what God really says. One day, somebody's going to ask us, "Why do you believe what you believe?" Well, scripture tells us what we should do there, too. In your hearts, revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. What's the reason for the hope that you have? I'd love to hear it. And I'm sure others would, too. Praying for you today, friends. God bless.