FAITH CAPSULE: Looking away from God is the loss of focusing on God.

Exodus 14

The combination of worrying and being troubled will elevate to having fear. 
To become worried and troubled in the face of challenge is evidence of not looking up to God. 
When one keeps an eye on confronting challenges, focus not on God. 
Are you beholding your challenge, or are you looking up to God?
The Children of Israel were out of the bondage of over four hundred years with the promise of God to get them to the Promised Land.
However, the children of Israel failed to focus on God.
Failure to focus on God will result in the fear of the challenge. 
Exodus 14:10-12 documents, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” 
Does that sound like you? 
The children of Israelites should know that God does not fail in His word.
The Israelites were worried and troubled and confessed negatively.
The solution to challenges demands focusing on God and the word of His promise. 
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples went ahead and locked themselves up in fear of the Jews. 
John 20:19 records, “Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.”  
While they were locked up in fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace. 
To be looking up to Jesus is to gain the peace of God.
Faith in Jesus will cause peace to reign.  
After Jesus had spoken peace to His disciples, see the mark of crucifixion on Jesus. 
John 20:20 states, “When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”  Seeing the mark opened up the disciples to come out of fear. 
If you begin to see the marks of crucifixion and believe that the marks were registered on Jesus for all to be able to have life abundantly, the fear about all that is going on around the world will not have its place in your life. 

Prayer for today: Ask the boldness and character to have a place in your life.