Sometimes it feels like life is like a rope bridge. One single line of rope beneath your feet and one on each side of you. Beneath you is a deep chasm and upon your heart lies fear and the Presence of the Lord.
The wind is swinging the bridge violently back and forth, and hesitation is upon the mind to rather cross the deep chasm, or play it safe and do nothing, try nothing, say nothing and stay within the locked confines of a limited life.
If one chooses to follow the Lord, He often takes us out over the heights, when all we have is faith that He is leading. It takes certain solid trust to obey God and ignore the roiling ropes twisting in the winds. And it certainly means not looking down at the depths below and thinking of creative forms of falling your mind would have your body to obey in.
I have been here before and I understand your fear. What to do? Simple keep the mind steadfast on the Scriptures in God's word, obey His nudging regardless of the mirrors in the mind and the many rumored realities of others who have failed. Put one foot in front of the other, sway if you have to with the wind...... learn the dance of the air. Try another step and flow the other way. Think of yourself as a willow tree and not an oak. Bend with the force of flowing air, don't bow up to it. Allow the movements to help you take another step. Walk one step at a time, stay in the Spirit of the Lord.....
Walking by faith is just like this rope bridge. Keep going..... you will cross the depths and end up on safe ground again, having gained new strength, wisdom and measures of victory against doubt and fear.
I know.... I have crossed many many ravines, and gorges and impossibilities by traveling on rope bridges through life.
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