WORLDS COLLIDE: Week 37 -There's No Place Like Rome - Acts 23

Hinds Feet on High Places. The story of “Much-Afraid,” a shepherdess employed by the Great Shepherd. Longs to accompany the Great Shepherd up to the mountains where he leaps with feet like a hind. But she’s crippled - physically: deformed feet and face; and emotionally: paralyzing fear. No courage. But longs to be loved, to be changed, to be able to leap with hinds feet on high places.

 I think in fact we want the courage to face all of life's hang-ups, problems, issues and circumstances that are gonna come our way, don't we? Don't we want courage to face an unknown or new career? Don't we want courage to face hardship or grief or failure?

We want courage to face the current situation that we're in, maybe that's filled with conflict or boredom and we're all staring at ourselves in the mirror saying, “If I just had the courage to face this then I'd get through it. If I just had the courage…”

Courage wouldn’t exist without fear. If you weren’t afraid, you wouldn’t need courage. Courage is taking action WHILE BEING afraid. Courage is demonstrating a kind of deep faith that can’t be just put on a plaque or a poster or a coffee mug - in fact is inexpressible with words.

Where do you get that kind of courage? Acts 23 gives us a direction to head…