Either you’ve uttered these words sometime in your life or you’ve heard your child say, ‘Leave the light on. I’m a little scared.’
If we’re honest with ourselves we probably all have to confess that at one time or another we were or are presently members of the ‘Scardy Cat Club.’
A mother was stopped at her son’s bedroom door with a warning on a new door hanger. It was a cartoon drawing of a dog with nails dug deep into the carpet as it held on for dear life, with teeth clinched and eyes bugged out as half of its body was sucked into an upright vacuum cleaner. Encased in a circle with a big line drawn through it with bold lettering were the words, NO VACUUMING!!
You probably could get along with your family if it just weren’t for the people involved.
Too many times the home front slowly turns into a battlefront where the family fights a daily war. The arsenal if filled with the ammunition of hurtful words fired back and forth at one another. Children get caught in the crossfire and suffer battle fatigue. The home becomes less of a collection of adjoining rooms, and more like separate barracks in various occupied territories. Individuals don’t unite and support one another; to survive, they hunker in their bunkers.
As Dr. Phil would say, How’s that working for you?
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The gospel of Mark ends with Christ giving his followers their marching order to go into the entire world with his message. After Jesus’ resurrection he ministered for 40 more days on earth before his ascension into heaven, then the disciple banned together to follow his order.
Sometimes the biggest obstacle to overcoming what separates us from doing great things for God is simply our eyesight.
Remember in Numbers 13 when the Israelite spies returned from Canaan and were overwhelmed with the obstacles to God’s promised future? The obstacles were GIANTS! They were so big that the Israelites felt like grasshoppers.
Corrie Ten Boom, the Dutch Christian woman who survived the Nazi death camps said, Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.