A
thought by John C. Maxwell (2015-10-06) from his book, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters (p. 172). Center
Street. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book to go to
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Do you know
what is on the other side of fear? It is
faith.
John says, “The
lesson I teach most often on faith is this: feed your faith and starve your
fear. To do that you must give your faith more energy than your fear. You can’t
reduce fear by thinking about it. You reduce it by taking action away from it.
How? By moving toward faith.”
He goes on, “Most
people ask God for knowledge first, and then move. God wants us to move first
and then He gives us knowledge. God asked Moses to go back to Egypt. Moses
didn’t understand why. And he didn’t want to go. But after he did go back to
Egypt, he understood what God was doing. The biggest mistake people of faith
make is feeling God owes them an explanation. God owes us nothing.”
John quotes Philip
Yancey who says, “We’re concerned with how things turn out; God seems more
concerned with how we turn out.”
John ends
this section by saying, “Our acting on faith is often how God grows us. Faith
does not make things easy, but it makes things possible because it puts
everything, including fear, into the right perspective. So if you want to
learn, to grow, to achieve your dreams of significance and to make a
difference, have faith.”
As my father
said, “What your faith covers you now have.”
So what do
you now have?
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