You and I are chased by Doubt.
Doubt is a detective par excellence. It constantly monitors the back alley of our fears, strategically moving one to the forefront when it will best ambush us.
I am about to keep my grandkids? Doubt inserts anxiety that something will happen on my watch into my consciousness.
The money will run out before the month does? Doubt casts shadows on God's ability to always make it somehow turn out.
Love (yesterday's post) and Doubt are opposite ends of the life spectrum, and we live in the tension in the middle. Every decision takes us in one direction or the other.
I picture it like a Great Tug-of-War. We are atop the rope, trying to balance as the earthly fight ensues between the call of the LoveChaser (God) and the temptation to Doubt (one of many faces of the Enemy of God).
When we are not anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present [our] requests to God, we step toward the LoveChaser (Philippians 4:6).
When we listen to Detective Doubt, we allow ourselves to be dragged toward fear and misery.
A step in either direction fuels momentum to go even further: doubt piles upon doubt, while the choice to trust God in a situation powers strength to continue movement toward our ever safe Harbor.
We can't lose the position of tension in this life. Doubt has permission to chase us.
But the Tug-of-War is ours to advance in the best direction, one decision-to-trust-God at a time.
