Training Wheels

One day you have to decide for yourself that this will be the day that you take the “training wheels” off of your faith and trust God wholeheartedly.  We want to trust God but have a fail-safe in place just in case something goes awry.  Guess what? I have some very pertinent news for you – Something is going to go awry, wrong and not our way at times in our lives but God is still there with us.  You can still ride with the training wheels on but when you experience life without them for the first time – of course it is frightening.  But when we overcome our fears of falling or injuring ourselves and exchange for the exhilaration and freedom we experience of being able to ride farther distances and experience new places; we realize that the reward is greater than the risk and that the only thing to fear is God himself and not the fear itself.  Faith will open up another world to those of us who trust and believe in God that he was there holding the us up until we got steady in our faith enough to have the training wheels taken off.  And he is still the same Father God that is right there beside us to steady our faith walk and he never leaves our side.   There is no “risk” in God; that is if you believe his word.  What is it that we are risking?  If his word says that he is with us always – then trust that all things are working together for our good.  When we have faith – faith ensures our success and cancels out all risk factors.  Our faith must outweigh the risk.