FAITH CAPSULE: Are you worried and not looking up to God?

Exodus 14

The antidote for challenge is focusing on God.
Challenges provoke worry.
Worrying is the reason for not looking up to God.
Are you worried and not looking up to God?
A failure to look up to God in the face of the challenge will misplace focus on God. 
Are you beholding your challenge or looking up to God?
The Israelites looked away from God to behold the challenge before them. 
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 Israelites, knowing fully well that God is able, yet they gave in to fear when they failed to lift their eyes unto God for help. 
The Israelites were worried and troubled when they gave a negative confession.
The solution for 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. “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.” (John 20:19) While the disciples of Jesus locked up themselves in the state of fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace. Jesus, the Word of God, is the Prince of peace.
Faith in Jesus will cause peace to reign.  
After Jesus had spoken peace into the lives of His disciples, their minds opened to see the mark of crucifixion.
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.”
Challenges today demand setting the whole mind on the mark of crucifixion of Jesus to remind all that He has paid the price to uphold all, not to become a victim of challenges.
What denies one from giving oneself to the word of God is the challenge of the world not to live for the glory of God.
God sent His word to heal and deliver from self-destruction. (Psalm 107:20)
Jesus is the living word of God.
He paid all on the cross for all.

Prayer for today: Ask to be bold and to have the character of looking up to God at all times.