FAITH or FEAR…Which is the Driving Force in Your Decision Making?
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about stepping out of my comfort zone. This was me doing something that was new and different from construction. I was afraid that it might not work, but I had faith that it was what I was supposed to do.
We all like operating in that place of comfort, after all, it’s well…comfortable.
As I’ve been working to do this thing that is out of my comfort zone, it seems that everywhere I turn this topic has been showing up. It’s been in things I read, discussions I’ve had, podcasts, blogposts, etc.
We can always find ways to delay or subvert the thing that we’re supposed to do. This shows up in all sorts of ways. Ultimately, it’s because we’re afraid. We’re afraid that it’s not good enough, or that no one wants what we have to offer.
One of the places that this topic of fear vs. faith was prevalent was in my re-reading of the 7th Decision in Andy Andrews book, The Traveler’s Gift.
In this chapter David Ponder meets the Archangel Gabriel in a huge place full of a wide variety of things that seem to have no connection to each other.
One of the things is a picture of a familiar looking boy and girl. Gabriel said, “The boy’s name is Jason and the girl’s is Julia.”
David looking at the photo, remarked, “I’ve always liked those names. My grandfather’s name was Jason. In fact, if Jenny had been a boy, Ellen and I were going to name the baby Jason. We always said we would name our second girl Julia. We wanted several children, but we never were able to afford . . .” A cold wave of nausea swept over David. Lowering the picture slowly, he gripped the side of the large basket with his other hand to steady himself. Breathing heavily, he said, “But you already knew that, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” Gabriel answered.
David, asks, “Why is this being done to me? Why am I seeing this now?
Turning to face Gabriel, David said, “What is this place?”
Gabriel spreads his arms and said…
“This, my friend, is the place that never was.”
This is where things that were about to be delivered just as a person stopped working and praying for them. It’s full of dreams and goals of the less courageous.
David asked if he can keep the picture, but Gabriel said, “I’m sorry, but Jason and Julia don’t exist”.
“The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.”
Why do we quit?
We quit because we lack faith.
Are you a person of faith or fear?
Which of these guide your everyday actions and decisions?
We’re driven by faith or fear—one or the other—both are the same. “Faith or fear is the expectation of an event that hasn’t come to pass or the belief in something that cannot be seen or touched.”
“Great achievers—are rarely realistic by other people’s standards. Somehow, these successful people, often considered strange, pick their way through life ignoring or not hearing negative expectations and emotions. Consequently, they accomplish one great thing after another, never having heard what cannot be done.”
If our plans are in alignment with God’s plan for us and we believe in our purpose anything is possible. In Mark 11:23-24 we’re told that if you believe, what you say will happen. If we ask for what we want in prayer and we believe, we will receive those things. Because…
“Nothing is impossible for God”
Have faith, don’t quite and you will win.
Oh, by the way…not only are we moving forward with the VB Homes project, we’re also moving forward with the customer consulting project.