"When God leads you to the Edge of the Cliff, Trust Him fully and Let Go, Only One of Two Things will happen, Either He'll Catch You When You Fall, Or He'll teach You How to Fly!"
As children we played the game "Follower the Leader." A simple game of letting someone else, a friend, guide you to an unknown destination. As a child, life is simple as far as our belief systems because we have more trust and less fear. However, as we grow and experience life, we decrease in trust and increase in fear. Nonetheless, in our spiritual walks we begin to learn that faith's nemesis is fear.
Faith is not just believing or trusting intentions and outcomes but putting actions to those beliefs. "Faith without works is dead." Without putting actions to your faith, faith cannot reproduce its fruits in your life. Furthermore, "without faith it's impossible to please God." Nonetheless, as we persevere through life's labyrinth, sometimes our faith is shaken by the different paths we have chosen to travel. Once we have stumbled and fallen repeatedly, we begin to develop an outer shell to protect us from future hurt, pain and disappoint.
This outer shell gives root to fear in our lives and slows us down, even sometimes immobilizing us from being able to act or respond to life in the "right now" time sequence. We become so precautious and skeptical, that we think and talk ourselves out of our blessings, whether that be people or opportunities in our lives. Faith is based on the belief that, that which we hope for will manifest.
Faith says:
-there are no limitations to God's provision in our lives
-we can cast mountains of opposition into the sea, because our God is bigger than our problems
-that the situations or circumstances that we are going through are not only going to pass but that we are going to be better than before on the other side of them
Fear limits us and creates an imaginary prison cell for and tell us that we are sentenced for life. We have to finetune our hearing to our spirit man and follow His guidance. The safest place in the entire world is in the will of God. If He indeed leads you to a cliff, do not let fear of the unknown or dying (suffering the loss of something) forbade you from taking that monumental leap of faith.
God has a track record with you. He had never made a promise that he didn't keep. He's been better to you than you could have been to yourself. When you walked through your valleys of the shadow of death, he encamped his angels around you and kept you from all hurt, harm and danger. Whatever you are afraid to lose, you will lose. When you release yourself from the shackles of fear and say to God, "my life is in your hand"; you can leap off the cliff and realize that your action mixed with your faith just took you to a new plateau in your relationship with your Creator. If he catches you, your faith is renewed in the fact that he will NEVER let you down. If he teaches you how to fly, your faith is renewed in the fact that you have NO limitations in him.
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