The Bible teaches us that God has great plans for each of us. God gives each of us who follow Him a dream and a plan which is custom made for us. And so many of us fail to realize that dream, fail to even really seek after it. The reason for that is simple. We are comfortable where we are. We don't want to leave our comfort zone and go after that dream, because it is scary.
When we hit that wall of fear that comes with leaving our comfort zones, too often we freeze up and give in to that fear, or tell God that we will be happy to go when he provides the way and removes the fear. But God doesn't take our fear, rather he tells us to take courage and to not be afraid. The true definition of courage is not the absence of fear, but rather choosing to
act in spite of it. When we realize who the God we follow is, those walls of fear will crumble before us, because we will realize that no matter how large the wall is, our God is bigger! This coming week, we have a lot of people from this church who are leaving their comfort zone to go and live out part of God's dream for Hagood Ave Baptist Church. I pray that any wall of fear we might run into there, or here back home would be met with
courage.