Students love to play
the game of “What if? Especial when they don’t want to do the current
assignment. It has its place. Looking at all the possibilities and having plans
B, C, & D is not a bad thing. But if it just becomes a form of worry, it
can lead to fear, which can be paralyzing.
What if it breaks?
What if it fails? What if I fall? What if the rope breaks?
What if my
parachute doesn’t open?
Admittedly, there are things I’m not comfortable
with. I will probably never go sky diving purpose. I just cannot see the point
of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Bu skydiving is more on the
extreme side. Are there normal things you avoid because of what ifs? I know
people that avoid going out in public because of everything they hear in the
media. You might get shot in a movie theater or at a fast food restaurant.
Someone might have a disease that you can catch. I don’t go for walks because
there may be dogs running around.
We all have fears, and that’s ok. Some I don’t
quite understand, but in the end it’s a personal thing. When we first started
working with the homeless, I’ll admit, I had my reservations. Now we hug,
fist-bump, and share the stories of their lives. My wife has even had the
opportunity of leading several to Christ. It comes down to this: Do you trust
God? You are just as safe in the “Hood” with him watching over you than in a
fancy house with a high tech security system. I’m not advocating running around
in reckless abandon. Wear your seatbelt. Climb with a safety rope. Put your
kids in a car seat. What I am suggesting is, to find what God wants you to do,
and do it fearlessly. It’s not always easy at first, but it’s the safest place
to be.
“Therefore I tell you, do
not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body,
what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not
sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And
why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do
not labor or spin. Yet I tell
you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of
these. If that is how God
clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into
the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we
drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For
the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them. But seek first his
kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you
as well. Therefore do not
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough
trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34 NIV
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