Cowardly or Brave?

First of all sorry for missing Sunday's entry. Today's entry is something that my pastor's message spoke to me and I feel like I should share it with you. His message was titled The Path Ahead and the focus of his series is The Abundant Life Journey. So he broke down the Path Ahead of us and how there's only two ways to take, The Cowardly Way and The Way of the Brave. I want to share the three things for each way that makes them what they are.
The Cowardly Way:
     Cowards get angry at God and quit.
     Cowards take the easy way out.
     Cowards always think they know best.
The Way of the Brave:
     Faith takes scripture seriously.
     Faith obeys even when it's scary.
     Faith trusts God more than self.
So after looking at these two lists, which way are you going? The cowardly way is the easy way out. This is the way that the enemy would love us to go. The enemy would love us to stop relying on God and start taking control of our lives. He would love for us to buy into that lie that God isn't there because he's not working the way you want and would love for you to turn our backs on God and pursue the things of this world. The way of the Brave is the more challenging way. I'll warn you ahead of time, it's not that easy but it's totally worth it. Pretty much the way I look at this way is that this is the way that is asking of us for nothing but faith. This way requires that we believe in God's word, follow him even when things look bad, and to deny our flesh and let him take care of everything. Can I be honest with you? There's been so many times in these past two months that I've wanted to and almost took the cowardly way. I want to warn you that the coward way looks great and it's seems so much easier but that way leads to more pain, hurt, heart ache, no peace or comfort. The way I chose to go down has been the way of the brave. I thank God for giving me the discernment to choose this way. Even though I said it wasn't easy and it's tough I'll tell you first hand that it's the best way to go. Durning these troubling times God has just been blowing/blasting my mind! Even though I know that he's still working on me, I know that he's got everything under control and that he's taking care of me.
So what way are you going to chose? I think you know what way you should chose :) But if you have chosen to take the way of the coward I want to let you know that you don't have to stay on that way. You serve a God who paid the ultimate price so that you can be free from that. Actually the only way out of the way of the coward is obedience.(Pastor Rick) So my prayer for us is that we chose to live the way of the brave. I pray that God would give us the discernment to chose the brave way and give us the strength and faith to walk the brave way.
 Here's something to always remember:
¹³No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. 1 Corinthians 10:13