Courage with Cold Feet
Courage with Cold Feet
Benaiah, one of King David’s ‘mighty men’, ‘was a valiant fighter. He went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.’
That’s what’s called ‘courage with cold feet’.
The greatest courage of all is showing courage in the face of fear.
Courage is just Fear that has said its prayers.
When you know you have heard clearly from God, you are filled with faith in that moment. It puts steel in your spine. But then, as you move out in faith, you encounter the lions of fear.
‘What if this doesn’t work?
What if I fail?
What will people say?’
Suddenly you’re having an attack of the ‘WHAT IF’s‘
‘Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear’ » Mark Twain
You have to decide whether you’re going to become a WARRIOR or a WORRIER.
There’s no middle ground.
When you’re faced with a health, family or financial crisis, you either choose to stand on God’s Word and fight, or give in to worry.
This side of heaven we will never fully understand why bad things happen to good people.
But we know that God is good – all the time! So when bad things happen, you will either give in to fear and allow it to destroy your peace and well-being, or you will become a warrior armed with God’s Word and rise up against it.
When fear threatens to engulf your mind, stand up and say ‘Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You’ (Psalm 56:3).
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