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“Almost everything you and I want is on the other side of fear.”

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 Amazon.com to buy the book.)

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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