Fear Of The Unknown

Something that God kept from us at creation is the ability to know how everything will eventually turn out. No matter how hard you try, this is not one of those things that you can learn or develop. This leaves us with loads of unknowns in our lives.

Our lives will always be coloured by myriads of these unknowns and our approach to them may end up shaping our lives. With respect to our walk with God, 2 questions always come to our minds when we are at cross roads:
1. “What if God answers the way I expect?

2. “What if God does not answer the way I expect?

Coming closer home, if you want to preach the salvation message to someone, you think to yourself: “what if he does not accept my message?” Or if you want to pray for a sick person, you may think: “What I he does not get healed after I pray?” The easiest thing to do is to shrink back and just keep to yourself and not get ‘embarrassed’.

In the early days of his healing ministry, Oral Roberts had to deal with these thoughts, when he had people on the prayer line. When someone was coming with ailments that had no physical presentation, it was easy for him to pray for the person, after all, no one will know if the person got healed or not. However if the people came with ailments that had physical presentations like a limp or a growth, he got scared. He would think: “What if I pray and God doesn’t heal them?” His way of dealing with such situations was to send another question back to the source of the original question “What if I pray and God heals them?” He gradually built up his faith and forever silenced that voice.

You too can silence that voice of doubt and with the reverse question. Just do your own part boldly because God is too faithful to fail you. Failure is not one of His attributes and it is not going to start with you. Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego had their own ‘unknown’ moment, Daniel had his own, even Joseph had his own. There are countless others who also had their own moments and they all emerged victorious. You too can join them. Just take God at His Word ‘cos it is sure and steadfast.