He Treats Me to a Feast; Notes from my Abundant Life
You can…
Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Jude 1:24 (AKJV)
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
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You can. Whatever you honestly desire to accomplish, assuming it is good, true, noble, right, pure, lovely, or admirable, according to Philippians 4:8, we are to think on those things. And after thinking on them, go do them. We can.
I spend so much time stressing, worrying about possible outcomes and contingency plans that I realize I’m wasting my time on the wrong stuff. He is able to keep us from falling. And that being so, what would we try, what might we accomplish, fully believing we could not fail?
I gave myself a personal challenge recently…Mark Nepo, a modern poet and philosopher, wrote my new wake-up call….”The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. It’s confirmation of the still small voice, coming to me from the Universe, my Father God….”You can.” I couldn’t be the only one frequently paralyzed by fear of falling short, failing, not quite making the grade. I couldn’t be. Why are we so afraid? We profess faith, do our best to pray and live our beliefs, but still we stand still, not stumbling, more afraid to move and possibly fall that remembering, He is able to keep us from falling….You can.
You can. Really. What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Here’s a secret. You’d leave it all on the floor. It would be your Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy performance, with an encore and two curtain calls. There’s more…another secret I learned though I often fail to draw upon it. If your failures do not kill you, they make you a little bit fearless.
So. today, there’s not a lot to it. Get ready…here’s the lesson. You can. Your fear is biggest when you fail to call it by its name. Most of what you imagine will never happen. You could. You should. You can. You must.
