"O Thou of Little Faith"

When I was interning last semester often I would find myself afraid to teach. I would ask myself what if I mess up and teach them wrong? What if I don't understand the topic I'm teaching and can't help my students? Am I really supposed to teach? I never had problem if I knew the materials but I was always afraid of having to teach a subject I was not good at. I was a little nervous when I received a letter telling me I would start my student teaching at Middle School. Once again fear came over me because, well.... lets just say the emotional ups and downs and attitudes just doesn't go over well with me. But once I started student teaching I noticed the fear I once had was gone. I reported to my teacher and she told me for the first two periods I would be teaching 8th grade math. And let me say... math is my weak subject. But when she told me for one I didn't panic, instead it was like God gave me boldness and the next thing I knew I was finding myself asking for lesson plans. Later as I began planning my lessons I felt fear starting to rise up within me, but I looked down and read what was on my ring,

"I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me." Phil. 4:13.

I CAN, yes thats right even though math has never been my best subject if I turn to God he can give me the guidance I need to teach these students. Something that God really spoke to me about was in Matthew 14 when Jesus is walking on the water and peter cries out

"Lord if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water." (14:28)

When Jesus said "Come" Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water to Jesus but when Peter took his eyes off of Jesus he became afraid and began to sink.

"he cried, saying Lord save me. And immediately, Jesus stretched forth his hands and caught him and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" (14:30-31).

Just like Peter, when I took my focus off of God I began to doubt and sink into fear like before but once I put my trust in Him and my Focus on Him a peace came over me and my strength was restored. God has not given us a reason for us to not trust in Him or for us to take our focus off of Him. He has promised us many times in the bible if we just look unto Him and trust in Him He will help us and give us strength that we need to do what He has called us to do.