what if

Anyone who keeps on watching the wind won’t plant seeds. Anyone who keeps looking at the clouds won’t gather crops.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NIRV)
 
I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent a lot of my life stuck in the land of “what if.”
What if I make the wrong choice?
What if I fail?
What if people laugh?
What if it doesn’t work out?
There have been so many times when I’ve had a dream on my heart—something I knew God was nudging me to do—but I froze because I couldn’t see how it would all play out. I’d wait for the perfect moment, the perfect plan, the perfect peace… and end up doing nothing at all.
Ecclesiastes 11:4 says, “Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.” In other words, if we spend all our time watching the weather, we’ll never get anything done. If we’re constantly checking to make sure conditions are just right before we step out, we’ll stay stuck in fear and doubt.
I remember one time when I felt a clear nudge to reach out to someone I hadn’t spoken to in years. I came up with every “what if” possible—what if they don’t respond, what if it’s awkward, what if they’ve moved on. You know what finally happened? I stopped overthinking and sent the message anyway. To my surprise, they responded with gratitude and said it was exactly what they needed that day.
That’s when it hit me: “What if” is the enemy of faith.
Faith doesn’t wait for everything to be perfect. Faith says, “Even if.”
Even if I fail, God is still with me.
Even if it doesn’t go the way I planned, He can use it for good.
Even if I can’t see the outcome, I trust that He’s already gone before me.
So maybe instead of asking, “What if it doesn’t work out?” we start asking, “What if it does?”
What if God blesses that small act of obedience?
What if the step you’re scared to take becomes the very thing that changes everything?
The truth is, we’ll never know unless we step out in faith—wind, clouds, and all.
 
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