Who's Got My Back?
/Have you ever thought about what you would attempt to do if you knew with 100% certainty that you would succeed? What you would do if there was no chance you could fail? Would you feel confidence in a 2 on 2 basketball game if Lebron James was on your team? Would you feel confident that you could fight crime if Batman was your partner?
I think about that often. I dream and pray for certain things, but often that little bit of doubt creeps in and keeps me from going all out for it. I know I’m not the only person to struggle with this. None of us want to fail or fall flat on our faces. Fear of failure can paralyze us and keep us from attempting anything that takes great risk.
The life of faith is one that requires us to take risks, leaps, and sometimes ask impossible things. If we're seeking God's face and attempting to follow His leading, there will be desires that He places in our hearts that we will want to see accomplished.
However, those gremlins of fear, doubt, and a worldly perspective can block us from ever seeing the Lord move in and through our lives.
The other day, I was preparing for the weekend service at my church and I was led to Romans 8. I’ve read this chapter more times than I can remember, but a statement at the end of chapter struck me in a way I’d never experienced before.
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
If God is for us… What a statement!
GOD. IS. FOR. US.
That would seem to imply that God is on our side. He’s on your side, and He’s on my side.
So I come back to the question: What would you do with your life if you knew that God was behind you?
If something instantly springs to your mind, then you need to start making it a serious matter of prayer. If through a process of spending time in God’s word and prayer you can say with certainty that this is something that aligns with God’s will as revealed in scripture, then you should start pursuing it. Don’t allow the fear of failure or the fear of making a mistake stop you. If this desire deep within you is something that is not contradictory to anything in scripture, then pursue it as if God is 100% behind you… because you know what? He is!
Jesus wants to do the impossible through your life. He has a plan for you, and He’s waiting for you to step out in faith trusting Him to be your support.