Faith Over Fear

We’re already into February. Blink twice and — poof — it’ll be 2027. Time flies. The real question is this: How will we look at what’s ahead — through fear or faith?

Fear has a sneaky habit. It buries the gifts God intended us to use. It whispers you can’t do that and calls it wisdom. Faith, on the other hand, rolls up its sleeves and says, “Let’s see what God can do!”

Remember the scouts Moses sent into the Promised Land? Ten returned with trembling voices: “We can’t do this. They’re stronger than we are.” (Numbers 13:31). Two optimistic souls — Joshua and Caleb — saw the same Promised Land and said, “We can certainly do it.” Same giants. Same terrain. But, different lenses.

Here’s a truth worth taping to our refrigerator — people who always say, “I can’t” and people who always say, “I can” are often both right.

Fear has a way of fulfilling its own gloomy predictions. Job even admitted it: “What I feared has come upon me.” (Job 3:25)

A fear-based vision shrinks possibilities. It misses chances. It wastes talent. It turns us into grasshoppers in our own eyes and sometimes we convince others to see us that way, too. That’s the trouble with fear — it’s contagious.

But faith? Faith sees milk and honey where fear sees only obstacles. Faith looks at giants and remembers God’s track record. Joshua and Caleb didn’t deny the giants — they simply trusted God more than their worries.

That’s the crowd I want to run with — the in-it-to-win-it believers who know this unshakable truth: “Nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37)

So let’s not underestimate what God can do through willing hearts. If He’s called us to it, He’ll carry us through it.

I’m choosing His team. Faith over fear. How about you?