Externally I was excited, internally my heart was racing and I was freaking out! As I was stepping out on to the ledge of a 111 meter drop from a bridge over one of the seven wonders of the world the only thing I could think was:
Am I really about to do this?
Never would I ever look back years ago and even think I would do this, but I knew I had to do it. I had to make the jump. No it wasn’t just so I could say I did this, it truly was a conviction the Lord put on my heart.
I used to think I was fearless, then the Lord convicted me of that when my previous team and I went on an African Safari a few weeks ago. Let me tell you, after spending two nights sleeping in tents in the wild with lions and all the wild animals of Africa…that left me nowhere near fearless.
But, God did teach me something from a lion within those days that carried on over to today with bungee jumping.
When a male lion get too old to move about he has to rely on younger lions to take care of him. He still has a threatening roar even if he has no teeth or claws. When deer or game wonder across the field the old male lion will roar intimidating the game and cause it to run in the opposite direction. The game doesn’t know but there is a trap of young lions in the opposite direction waiting to eat the them. If the game just ran towards the roar he would be safe and fearless.
If we truly want to overcome fears then we need to learn to run through our fears,
stepping over what need be, and run towards the roar to see beyond the fear
choosing to live by faith.
If we choose to run away from our fears, then we are willingly giving the enemy
a right to use fear to control us and gain
a foothold in our lives through intimidation and lies.
In the same way I knew God was calling me higher. Calling me to stop living in fear of the unknown, fear of messing up, fear of being put to shame, and the list goes on and on. He was calling me instead to step into my fears by faith.
Fear can creep in to the most simplistic things of life but truthfully we were never created to live that way. In 2 Timothy 1:7 it says:
“God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power love and of a sound mind.”
When we have faith even as small as a mustard seed we can say MOVE to this mountain and it will move. (Matthew 17:20)
No I’m not saying you have to step out and bungee jump to conquer your fears. It’s just something I felt led to do in order to break that chain of feeling controlled by fear, but think about it…
What’s holding you back from stepping out in faith?
What fear is dragging you down from living in freedom of what God has called you to do?
Will you choose faith over fear today?
Below are links to videos of my experience at Victoria Falls:
