Fear of failure

I was reading this blog post on Stuff Christians Like which got me thinking about why I am so afraid to make a move.

I am sitting in a job I don’t like, and is pretty much a dead end job, and I really want to make a move out of my industry, but I am afraid…

My good friend Fritz is a great example for me, with regards to this. He left a good paying job to go do something that he loves doing. And Fritz, I really admire you for doing that.

Now, following the Haiti disaster, I was telling my wife, I wish there was a way that I can GO and help out. Not help out financially or anything, but to go to the area, and help and minister to people out there.

Or, looking at Charity Water every once in a while, I feel like I want to go on one of the trips myself, but every time fear gets the best of me.

Or every now and then, I feel like I should go into ministry or start my own business, but I am always too afraid to fail.

What would my wife say?

What would my family say?

What will I do when I come back?

How will I support my family?

Do I not believe that God will take care of me and my family? Why am I such a coward?

May God start to work in my heart and my life, to get this cowardly feelings out of me.

May God start to make Matthew 6:25-34 real in my life, and may I start to really trust in Him to give us what we need.

²⁵“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life^[b]?²⁸“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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