The reason many people can’t swim is because they were taught fear of water rather than respect for water.
I remember as a child when at the lake as I went near the water being told, “Get away from there!”
I was taught at an early age to be afraid of the water.
The disciples became afraid for their lives as the storm raged while Jesus slept in the lower parts of the boat. When Jesus woke up, before He rebuked the winds and the waves, He rebuked their fear and lack of faith…
Matthew 8:23-27 (NKJV)
23 Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. 24 And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. 25 Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
26 But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 27 So the men marveled, saying, [a]“Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”
I’m sure there were many people in those days afraid of boats, just as many people today are afraid of planes.
What are you afraid of?
How did you learn to be afraid of that? It’s one thing to have a healthy respect for the power of something and another to be afraid of it…even your enemies.
Too many times it’s our fears that come between us and our purpose, our vision, our calling, our destiny, our potential…being everything God called us to be.
Remember what God told us through the Apostle Paul…
2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Too many times, “Fear is how the enemy convinces you to customize an attack against your own future.”
BE BLESSTIFIED!
BE BLESSTIFIED! 