FROZEN IN FEAR….
These words came to me while talking to my daughter, who is contemplating a new job as well as her husband. Both are working in a good environment, and both have been approached, within a week of each other, to go and work for new companies or new departments within the same company. Those choices can freeze us in fear, rather than seeing us stepping in faith.
They are scared.
Adding to that some current issues surrounding their lives, and the tendency with them is to hunker down and wait for the storm to pass. Being the Dad, those words in the title of this article came out of my mouth. I stopped the conversation and drew her attention to what I said because it amazed me I said it. Shocked me, actually. Who is this wise soul talking to my daughter coming up with a phrase like that which is now the title to this article?
STEPPING OUT IN FAITH
They were words I had tried to find for a big part of my life. “Sure, sure, sure, step out in faith. Do that. That’s a good thing. God has you. God won’t let anything happen to you.”
There is one answer to that last sentence. The hell He won’t!
God is forever in us. As Christians, he lives in us. But that doesn’t mean we will not get eaten by the giant fish, or shipwrecked, or any of the other things the believers in front of us went through, although I think sawn in half with a wooden saw like-is a little extreme for this day and age.
I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION….
I have come to the conclusion, maybe late in life, that God has all of it. All of my life, every step, is known to Him. But some things—I don’t want to say he doesn’t care about, but just don’t make a difference in His Plan.
For example, if He cared which job to take, I am willing to bet your choice would be chosen for you.
My experience is Dad will guide us and place us wherever He wants. If it is a choice between A or B and His plan is such it doesn’t matter, then the drudgery of worry over whether we pick A or B is just Satan keeping us up at night. The idea we think or ask God, with that holy of holy sounding prayer we always pull out of our pocket to sound, well, holy, ‘Oooohh, God above all, thoughest is thy high priest of my will and if thoughest is pleasedeth with meeeeth, I beseech thee to blessed….’ Sure, if you pray like that, really pray like that, I celebrate you. But if you think you need to get holy when you do, well, by your faith in what happened at the cross, you are already holy. The God of the Universe loves my voice. He loves it when I talk with Him. I have years ago given up on caring if people in the car next to me see me talking with no one in the car.
Just ask Him about your fear like you would, well, a dad. All of a sudden, you may find yourself unfrozen.
“Dad, I like this one. I think it’s good for me and the fam.” Then let Dad be Dad.
LIVING LIFE CAN CAUSE US TO FREEZE WITH FEAR….
Living life can cause us to freeze with fear we will make the wrong choice. And we might. But God is God and His Plan is the only plan. We may choose to not follow it, and He will let me wander down that path for a while until I become painfully aware it was the wrong path, and then draw back to Him. But His plan might not care if you cut the green wire or the red one. That, He might just leave up to you. Do you want this job or that one. He is big enough to sweep that choice up in his plan.
Satan owns that fear which causes us to question even God. But that fear died on the cross. Sure, it will be nightmarish sometimes.
God’s Plan for us is never free of bouncy roads or deep ruts. They are just perfect and that is what I am banking on.
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