Why am I such a coward?

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by Dan Godde

I was reflecting recently on the power of God. Yeah, yeah, I hear you say. They’re God is so big. This is Sunday school stuff. Sure, but have you stopped to think about it as an adult?

God is infinitely powerful. There is nothing he cannot do. His power is unlimited. He does whatever he wants. No-one can stop him. And he runs this place. He controls the relative movement between galaxies and the movement of electrons around the nucleus of an atom, and all things in between, and all things bigger and smaller than those that we maybe don’t even yet understand.

Not only that, but God perfectly works everything out with his plan. He has considered every permutation and combination of every interaction in the universe and makes sure that they all work exactly as he has planned. We get a hint of how incredibly difficult that is from movies like ‘The Butterfly Effect’, but God does it all exactly the way he has planned. God is all powerful. And he is good.

Now here’s the rub. If God has absolutely everything, without exception, in his control, and he is good and has our best at heart (Rom 8:28), then why are we ever afraid? Why are we anxious? I can think of only one reason: lack of faith. Why am I such a coward? Because of my lack of faith.

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