Attempting Something Fantastic

Someone once said; "Attempt something so great that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it!"

That is really scary and exciting at the same time. Attempting to do something that is bigger than me? How many times do I shrink back and away from doing something extraordinary or impossible because I know I don't have everything it takes to do it?

We have a magnet that says; "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

This gets one thinking about what you might do if failure wasn't an option on the menu. The word "fear" is cancer to humans. I'm trying to rid myself daily of it. I am tempted to fear a lot of things. And I do. Fear holds me back from a lot in life. It is a lie I keep choosing to chew on.

"Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but allow only faith to drop anchor."

Fear is that still small voice that keeps repeating its monotone message.

"You can't do this."

"You aren't smart enough."

"You're afraid of this, remember?"

"Only well-educated people can do this or get this job, you know they will just tell you no."

 And on and on it goes. Satan and his minions offering lies as fast as McDonald's is selling cheeseburgers and fries, and in a lot of cases a lot faster than McDonald's. There just is no end to it, unless I choose to stop listening. And I mean CHOOSE. If I start rejecting the negativity coming into my thoughts, it will die down. Will I ever be completely free of stabs of fear? No. But the more I practice banishing it, I will become stronger and stronger in the battle against fear.

Fear isn't of God. We are to Fear God, but that fear is a reverent Holy Fear. God tells us to fear nothing.

2 Timothy 1:7 (And don't skip over reading this verse, I know how we can be).

For God has NOT given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline
Plus, there are bunches more in the Bible about fear and its problematic symptoms on humans. I have to ask God to take over where I can't do it. He will. He does.
 
~ Prudence