Matthew 6:34
“Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
“Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
When you’re stressed and scared, have you ever read quotes like these:
“Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.”
-Bob Proctor
“Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith. Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up the need to be in control, take a leap in faith and fear will vanish as the mists in the morning sun.”
-John Harricharan
Makes you feel nice and relaxed, right? It doesn’t make me feel relaxed. By the sound of this it seems like if I fear, then I don’t have faith. Now while there is truth to the fact we have nothing to fear because Jesus has already paid it all on the cross, we live in a sinful world and I do not live out my faith perfectly.
For example, when everything in the world is shutting down and people are becoming more and more frantic in response to a pandemic virus, I have some fear. Yeah, that stresses me out a little bit. And if my only mindset is from the first quotes, then yes, it’s a little discouraging and it leaves me to focus only on my failure and not on God’s power. Then, I saw this quote and it made me think.
“Faith doesn’t mean you don’t have fear, it means that you don’t let fear stop you.”
Now, this quote still puts the ball in your court, but it humanizes our condition and our faith a little bit. It states that even if we are afraid, we’re not bad Christians or faithless, but just that we’re human. We need to live into the fact that God has already won, He knows what’s best today and every day and knows what tomorrow holds.
That’s comforting to me, especially now, when I don’t know what three hours from now holds. I can acknowledge my fear, take a deep breath, and then live into the fact that God has everything under control. Not that I have to have it under control but that I can be comforted knowing that even when I don’t have it under control, He still loves me.