This past week in my world I learned a lesson that maybe you have already learned, and that is that for a large portion of my life I have lived on fear rather than on faith. If you would be honest it can be extremely scary, nerve-racking, and altogether frightening to step out in areas where you are unsure of what will happen. For a large portion of my life, I used to think that I was living by faith just because I went to church, sang in a choir, or even read my bible. I mean lets be honest, you can read the bible but not have a relationship with Jesus...
In my world I had to come to the stunning reality that faith is not experienced until you begin walking in areas of the unknown! Faith is also only built when you put God's word to the test and begin holding on to God's word more than you have held to your feelings. I had to laugh literally out loud because for so long I felt and thought that I was living a full life of faith until things happened that pushed me to trust the word of God. If you can already see everything work out and are in a position where you can make things work out, thats not faith. But you begin walking in faith when faith finds you in a position where all you can honestly do is trust God's word.
The reason this hit me so hard in my world is because I realized that walking in faith and walking by faith has so many benefits and I am missing out on huge blessings because of my fear. My fear and maybe yours too can literally paralyze you to the point where you can't see Gods blessings, experience God's blessings, and rejoice in God's blessings because fear has kept you locked in a prison to which you are serving a lifetime sentence. But I do believe that its time for us to have a "prison break"! Join me as we begin to, by God's grace stop allowing fear to keep us from experiencing what God wants us to have! Thats what I learned in my world...peace!
