Matthew 10
Faithfulness in the Face of Fear!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Saturday, March 28: this is the Day the Lord has made, let us REJOICE and be GLAD in it.
Over 20 years ago I served in the Army as a paratrooper. A paratrooper’s job is to jump out of an airplane in order to seize a foothold deep behind enemy lines, to help the Army win the war.
The Army’s secret to a successful military jump is TRUST! Every paratrooper goes through rigorous training to learn to trust the jumpmaster, trust the training, and trust the equipment. To say that I got over the fear of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane and hitting the ground with the force of jumping out of a 2-story window, with full combat gear, at night, is to miss the point of how the army trains its paratroopers—you learn to trust your jumpmaster, your training, and your equipment, so much, that you remain faithful in the face of fear!
It’s the same now, in my daily walk with Jesus… The key to successful Christian living is trust! Jesus taught us in Matthew 10:28, “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” I have learned that fear is real and the only way to be faithful in the face of it is to trust the Jumpmaster of my soul, His training, and His equipment—His Word and Spirit.
Until we learn to trust God with our lives and our death, and until that trust is worked deeply into us, fear will limit our ability to be faithful in the face of it.
Seize the Moment: Start your day off with God every day. Pray and ask God to build your trust in Him. God has a mission for you: Are you ready to jump in?
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