If

If I only had more money . . .

If I were only smarter . . .

If I could do that . . .

If I looked like her . . .

If they loved me like . . .

If I were faster . . .

If I had better parents . . .

If I had grown up in a better area . . .

If I could be like . . .

If I could sing like . . .

If I could speak like . . .

If I were more talented . . .

If I had been given . . .

If they only knew . . .

If only . . .

If . . .

Fill it in:

If (your greatest if thought) . . .

Some ifs matter. Some don't. Most we can't do anything about. But they hold us back, they keep us down, they stop of from being who and what God wants us to be.

But the more important ifs have already been answered for us:

"If Christ is not risen . . . your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! But now Christ is risen from the dead!" (1 Cor 15:17, 20)

"If God is for us, . . . who can be against us? In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us!" (Rom 8:31,37)

Let's stop living in our own (if) excuses and fear, and start living in Christ's victory!