Standing in the middle of our kitchen, I whined, "What if I get lost?
There will be hundreds of cars in that parking lot. What if I can't find
the car after you leave and I'm ready to come home?"
My husband
drew me gently into his arms. "Where is your faith?" He asked. He would
be leaving in a few days with two hundred other World War II and
Korean-era veterans on an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. I
was excited for him. I wanted to see him off and then welcome him home
when he returned, but I have two phobias. I don't like to drive, and I'm
afraid of getting lost. Add to those a terrible sense of direction and
his leaving from an unfamiliar city, and it lights the fire of a major
panic attack.
"You don't have to go if you don't want to, Hon.
I'll understand," my husband graciously assured me. "I'll phone you when
we are ready to leave and again when we return."
But I wanted to
go!
I thought about it over the next few days. "Where is your
faith?" Kept spinning through my mind. Then one morning, the verse of
Scripture in my devotional reading struck home. "For God hath not given
us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind"
(II Timothy 1:7, KJV).
This fear was not coming from God. The
verse I had read said He gives us a spirit of power and of a sound mind.
Could I discipline myself to drive to an area I was unfamiliar with,
brave a huge parking lot bloated with cars, and find my way home without
getting lost? No on my own I couldn't. But with God's help, I could. And
I would. And I did!
Thank You, Lord, for giving me a spirit of
power and for helping me to discipline myself to do what I thought I
could not do. Now I can testify to the truth of Jesus' words in Mark
10:27: "For with God all things are possible." To Him be the glory!
When our faith is in God, all things are possible!
Where is Your Faith?
Today's Bible Verse:
"Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou
dismayed: for the Lord they God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."
(Joshua 1:9).
Where is Your Faith?
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