Mama C's Boasting Blog - Day 25

Luke 8:50
But Jesus hearing it, answered him, Fear not: only believe, and she shall be made whole.
In this scripture Jesus is confronting something that is all too familiar to many of us - fear.  When our Heavenly Father tells us something is possible that our natural man tells us is impossible, we often have a tendency to believe the latter.  That kind of belief is the opposite of faith.  That kind of belief is fear, and it should have no place in our hearts.  So what are we to do when it is there?  When it is screaming at us, "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!"  What then?  I'll tell you what...SCREAM BACK!  "God is for me, not against me!  God's plans are to prosper me, not to harm me!  If God be for me, who or what can be against me?  All of God's promises are yes and amen toward me!  Goodness and mercy follow me all the days of my life!  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!  With God all things are possible!"  We must call those things that be not as though they were.  We must fear not.  We must believe God.  Okay, okay...on to today's boast.

I remember as a child being embarrassed if I could not do something well enough to meet someone's expectations for me.  If a situation arose where I felt I would not do well, I ran, I hid, I did whatever I had to do to get away from that situation.  Ironically, once I grew up, I did not allow my children to say, "I can't."  If they did, I lovingly explained to them that "I can't" means "I won't try hard enough."  I tried to teach them that it was okay to say something was difficult or that they needed help to accomplish something, but I did not allow them to say "I can't."

Funny thing is that I usually haven't heeded my own advice.  :-)  Instead, I have continued silently saying, "I can't!"  I have continued saying that, and I have continued running, but you know what?  Running all the time is exhausting!  That's why I'm thankful that my Heavenly Father is teaching me how to stop running...how to trust in His strength...how to 'fear not, only believe'...how to reach out to Him...how to finally realize that when I can't, He can.  God is soooo awesome!