For me learning to be okay with failure in life and in my faith wasn’t an easy journey and I still struggle with it. I always had this feeling that I had to be my absolute best at all times and when I wasn’t it felt like I had disappointed everyone around me. That feeling created a fear in me. I became withdrawn in life and especially in my faith. How could I disappoint God? How could I fail a God willing to die for me? I went back and forth with my fears for a long time until one day everything changed.
WE have a choice in this life. We were given the ability to choose. Fear is a choice. We don’t have to be afraid of change, disappointment, falling, snakes, or even death. Jesus came to conquer all of those things so that we might live everyday free of fear. Sometimes it’s not easy to listen to God and what He is calling us to do. We become hesitant of rejection or humiliation from the people around us. We turn away because it doesn’t fit the life we think we should be living. We have to be reminded that if we know God and follow his word and listen to where He is leading us……We have nothing in this world to fear.
We are called everyday to believe no matter what we are going through God will guide us through it. I truly believe God lead me to the World Race to element the fear of failure from my life and my faith. He also has given me the opportunity to show so many other souls that this life we are living is incredible beyond measures and with God on our side there is no fear, and we have the courage to face everyday with His unfailing love. “Feed your fears, and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.”
“If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all” – Isaiah 7:9
