"If we're more impressed with bad men, than a good God, fear will kill our dreams." - Gary Haugen
I was at the Global Leadership Summit last week and the words that I opened this post with have been stuck in my mind ever since. They were spoken by the speaker from the closing session - Gary Haugen, founder and president of International Justice Mission.
The entire closing session was on fear and how it can destroy any dream we have if we allow it to. No matter what our training or our knowledge or our dream, fear can completely destroy us. Haugen then went on to talk about how we can stand against fear and not allow us to destroy our dream.
This is when he said the words I opened this post with.
"If we're more impressed with bad men, than a good God, fear will kill our dreams."
When God has given us a dream, something He's asking us to do, whether we are actually able to do it or not depends on where we're looking and on who we're walking with.
We can look at the size of the dream and all that could go wrong, and allow our fear to take over. We can look at all of those who oppose our dream, and allow fear to destroy us.
OR . . .
We can look at the God Who gave us the dream, and move forward on it. We can choose to surround ourselves with people who will encourage us and help us keep our focus on God, and move forward on it.
I've been challenged the last few days, with these thoughts about fear, and where I'm focusing.
"If we're more impressed with bad men, than a good God, fear will kill our dream."
Where are you focused?
On what could go wrong?
Or on what could go right?
Keep your eyes on our good God and surround yourself with people doing the same thing, and you'll be able to move forward in the dream, the calling, that God has given you.
