The backcountry explorers say the most difficult time of the day is wake up time in the morning. When they hear tempestuous wind blowing outside, lying inside the tent, they are scared and this makes it hard for them to get up. However, once they get up and go outside, many times they see the weather isn’t as bad as they thought it would be.
We may all have similar experiences. It takes a while to put what we have determined to do into action. However, after you put it into action, you will realize that you have worried over nothing. The problem is timidity. Of course, we need to be prepared no matter what we decide to do, but if you get timid at the thought that you might undergo trial-and-error more than you have expected, it will only drag you down. If we are the spiritual explorers who are pioneering the backcountry of the gospel, we must know that a spirit of timidity isn’t something what God has given us.
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 Ti 1:7
God has given us the strength to love souls and to manage our own selves, and the ability to do anything. No matter how ferociously the howling wind that swirls in our desert of faith falls on our ears, let us not be timid but lift up our bodies and go outside, and we will to see what God has given us one by one.