What does it mean to allow your faith to be bigger than your fears? Faith is the anti-thesis to fear because fear is based in the unknown and faith is founded in belief. To allow fear to run your life while claiming to have faith is living counter-intuitive and in-turn chaotic. Faith irons out the wrinkles of the unknown by allowing trust in something bigger than YOU — that is still YOU, to fill in the gaps where our knowledge is limited. Anytime we do anything new, fear of the unknown is present. After a while, that novel thing that once frightened us becomes normal and we can now operate within that perceived fear with confidence instead of trepidation. GOD will always ask us to face our fears, nopes, and nevers — especially when walking a path of faith. Faith is still having confidence even when faced with the unknown because you can accept that you’re a part of something much grander than your self-limiting human perceptions. Life challenge’s us for a reason. If it were easy — we’d get bored. Hell, many of us ran into the Military to escape the boring and mundane reality we were already trapped in. Although the thought of serving in combat, being away from family, and getting treated like a slave scared us. The idea of being stuck where we were, going nowhere fast, and ending up in jail, dead, or under an over-pass put the fear of GOD in us. So we lept into the unknown — facing our fears, gaining experience, earning confidence in the idea that we are strong, fierce, and capable. We ride this truth through our years of service before separating, again, into the unknown World from whence we came. Those old fears waiting for us like a childhood bully after school. Yes, we’re older, wiser, and more experienced yet — so many of us still don’t know how to live outside a brotherhood and we fail to live even if seemingly crushing it outside in civilian life. This leads to broken confidence, a loss of faith, and eventually fear-based anxiety. To get back what we once lost, we must adopt that old mentality of strength, fierceness, and capability. It was originally motivated out of us from the depths of our being by the brother or sister to the left and right of us. Now — you have to be that for yourself. Your brothers aren’t next to you anymore and you’re on your own. But are you really? Again, faith fills the gaps left by a lack of knowledge. When you perceivably have nothing and nobody — what’s left? Death or GOD. It’s been said that the craziest thing a man can do is to let himself die. In my opinion, the craziest thing a man can do in the 21st century is to actually allow himself to live. Many of us are out here, stuck in fear, mad at GOD, and simply marking time until we checkout for good. But it doesn’t have to be like this. You got to let your faith be bigger than your fear — this is the start of how; Let’s dive in. Follow our social media pages: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FWsPpcm3H/?mibextid=wwXIfr YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VeteranDadPodcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13261037/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veteran_dad_podcast?igsh=a3M4OWY4ajN3bHg%3D&utm_source=qr X/Twitter: https://x.com/VetDadPodcast Shoot us an email with any questions or requests at: veterandadpodcast@gmail.com
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