Let Faith Open the Door

“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from … the anxieties of daily life…” Luke 21:34

I don't know why but it is so much easier to dwell on the negative. To be anxious about the future. To go over and over thoughts about what CAN happen from here to eternity!!!

And definitely so many bad things CAN happen to us and our loved ones. As it happened to 26-year old Sydney Thomas on that fateful March day just this year. Sydney was routinely driving her huge semi delivery truck across the Clark Memorial Bridge over the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky. A pick up truck swerved into her lane without warning because Trevor Branham, the driver, tried to avoid a stalled car on the bridge. 

Sydney’s semi crashed through the bridge railings and the truck hung 100 feet over the river. Sydney was thinking this was a crazy way to die, and what was going to happen to her 5 year old son, Mason?! For 40 minutes, Sydney prayed. "Please, Lord, just give me another chance," she repeated over and over.

God sent a brave fire fighter named Bryce Carden, who specialized in high-angle rescues. He managed to rappel down from the bridge to Sydney. He asked her through the window, “Are you a praying woman?” She answered yes and he led her to pray together. “Heavenly Father, we ask You to guide us, to protect us, and to bring us safely back to the ground. In Jesus' name, Amen."

Bryce pulled her through the window, and brought her back up the bridge slowly. Talking about this harrowing incident, Sydney said, "Sometimes you pray-and I've been guilty of this-you pray, and you think God isn't listening. But He definitely was that day."

She added, "God brought me through this for a reason. I have a purpose to fulfill, and I can't let fear keep me from doing what He has planned for me. He didn't bring me out of that truck to let me live in fear. He saved me, and I trust Him to guide me."

We don’t experience these heart stopping occurrences in our life usually, but we should always remember God is listening to us, whatever our circumstance.

When fear knocks, 

we should let faith open the door.

When anxiety knocks,

we should let faith open the door.

When insecurity, inadequacy,  knocks, 

we should let _________ open the door!!!