It's not what you and I do ... it is what God is doing, and he is creating something totally new, a free life! Galatians 6:16, The Message
"Fear of failure inhibits freedom; the freedom to fail encourages it. The life of faith encourages the risk taking that frequently results in failure, for it encourages human ventures into crisis and the unknown. When we are in situations where we are untested (like Peter at the arrest of Jesus) or unaccustomed (like Peter on the Mount of Transfiguration), we are sometimes going to fail. ... These failures, though, are never disasters because they become the means by which we realize new depths of our humanity and new vistas of divine grace. In the midst of our humanity and divine grace, the free life is shaped."
Traveling Light
God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.
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This makes me think of the wicked, lazy servant in Matthew 25: "Then the man who had received the one talent came. 'Master', he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.' The Master goes on to challenge that servant with the idea that, knowing that the Master he served is himself a risk-taker, then the servant should have likewise taken an appropriate risk. John Eldredge I think made the point that God himself is "Wild at Heart". This is a very convicting concept for me.
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