You might be controlled by fear if you think:
- Ambition: The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.
- Despair: It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
- Limitations: Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.
- Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
- Wishes: When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.
- Potential: Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.
HOWEVER:
- Faith knows that darkness, pain, hurt, and hardship are the pathway to greater revelation of who God is and how He works in and through our lives.
- Faith sees those moments, not as an end BUT as the front end of a miracle.
- Faith sees risk through the eyes of God's power and Spirit, which is limitless and all powerful.
- Faith chooses to believe rather than plunge into fear, worry, and doubt.
- Faith wrestles with deep emotions of anguish, fear, doubt, frustration, and despair BUT is not overtaken by them. How? Not through self-inspiration, but through TRUST in God. Faith allows God to overcome through us.
- While fear worries, faith prays!
- Faith does not look to God to avoid suffering BUT to discover my joy in Christ goes deeper than suffering, lack, or hurt.
- Faith does not ask for comfort BUT learns that Jesus-followers have a peace that surpasses all discomfort in this lifetime.
Okay, not preaching, just explaining from personal experience. Maybe we've all been entered into the reality show of life called "Faith versus Fear".
What are your faith vs. fear stories?
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