Embrace your doubt? Are you sure?

I have listened to preachers who encourage you embrace your doubts about your faith. Frankly, the more I think about it, the more I disagree.  Perhaps you can help me understand; but first a few thoughts.

Webster's defines doubt as:
  1 archaic
    a: fear
    b: suspect
  2 to be in doubt about (he doubts everyones word)
  3 a: lack confidence in :Distrust (find myself doubting him even when I know he is honest)
     b: to consider unlikely

Now when it comes to my faith it is honest for me to admit there are things I don't understand. In fact, there are times when I suspect or lack confidence in certain things. So according to Webster, that would be doubt. I admit it.

Webster defines faith as:
  1 a: allegiance to duty or person
     b: (1) fidelity to one's promises (2) sincerity of intentions
  2 a (1) belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion
  3 something that is believed especially with strong conviction;  

Here is where I am confused: for me to embrace my doubt about my faith, would mean that I should intentionally:

1. lack trust or confidence in my allegiance to God,
2. consider unlikely my belief, trust and loyalty to God,
3. not have a strong conviction in my beliefs.

I don't think I could survive it that were my world view.  Not only that but I have a heart felt sorrow for people who do. I mean no disrespect to their point of view. I just do not understand how they could have any sense of hope.

James put it this way: Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.

To me this means that embracing your doubt would lead one be double minded and unstable. Please do not misunderstand my position though. I know that I doubt. I know that we all doubt.

Jesus being the son of God obviously had no doubt and perfect faith. For example: Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered. When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. "how did the fig tree wither so quickly?" they asked. Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, through yourself into the sea,' and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."

I have met people who have seen amazing answers to prayer, but I have never met a person who can tell a tree to die and watch it do so immediately. Or said another way, I've never met any person with the faith of Jesus. We all doubt. But why embrace it? Why not double our efforts for more faith?

What do you think?