Abandon Fear

A New Start – Day 7

In 1990, we decided to move from California to Virginia.  It was kind of a crazy decision as I was leaving a good job and all my friends.  In Virginia was my mom and my sister and a few friends but mostly the unknown.  When we got there, I had a hard time finding a good job and we went through some very lean months.  In the end it turned out very well.  I started the career that I am still in today.  We made some life-long friends.  I even was able to go to our church’s Bible College that we did not realize was there when we moved.  Still, it was a crazy decision to move there made by an immature young couple.

In today’s reading, in Genesis chapter 24, Rebekah makes what seems like a crazy decision.  Here is this young lady, probably in her teens, faced with the choice of leaving her family and home to travel to a foreign land to marry a cousin whom she has never met.  What was she thinking?  What would you think?  She did not hesitate but went to be Isaac’s wife.

Is God calling you to do something that seems crazy?  I will not tell you to abandon wisdom, but I will tell you to abandon fear.  If fear is the only thing that is keeping you from stepping out into something new, leave it behind like Rebekah left her birthplace behind.  Examine the choices before you in light of God’s Word and your situation.  In wisdom, purity, and faith; move out into the new challenges that God has for you!