That is a statement that has been a cause of some anxiety in my life… The what if would lead me down so many rabbit holes I would not even remember what the original what if was… Satan had a stronghold in my life.. What if… What if… What if… I can not tell you how many moments I lost in the now because I was lost in the what if world….

What if use to be my bondage but now it is an anthem in my life… As a child (and an adult) I would ask myself what if people think I am weird because I love Jesus so much… In high school this caused me to search for the world to fill me because I did not want people to not like me… In the last few years the what ifs changed but the core to all of them is, what if Jesus asks me to do something that makes me lose friends…or makes me uncomfortable.

I used to be scared to pray with people, or talk about my faith because I did not want to make people uncomfortable… I would talk about Jesus with people who I knew believed the same way that I did because it was comfortable… Then one day a switch flipped.. what if… I started to be so bold in my faith that instead of worrying about being weird I started worrying about those hurting people around me…

What if instead of saying I will pray for you, I did pray for you right there in the middle of the grocery store aisle because you know what? There is power in prayer… What if… instead of worrying about people looking at me in worship I started to just worry about worshiping and giving God my best…

Here is what is friends, the truth of the matter is I have lost friends because of my faith. It makes sense because Jesus said in John 15:19 “if you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you”. I think of so many moments where I did not share the Gospel because I feared man over fearing the Lord. I feared being laughed at that I did not reach out and pray with that stranger because I did not want them to feel uncomfortable.

What if we lived our Christian walk outside of the safe walls of church on Sunday.. What if we prayed with that stranger.. What if we shared our story, the good, the bad the ugly because it could change someones life… Satan would lose a lot of strongholds in peoples lives… What if we took a step toward the uncomfortable if it meant someone came to know Jesus and their what if turned into eternity with Jesus? What if we love someone right where they are when everyone else has left… Can you imagine….