A few years ago the small company I was working for was being acquired by a much larger corporation.  I had never been through anything like this so I was naïve to the process and what all goes on with this.  I decided I would just keep doing my job, “business as usual”, until I was told otherwise.  I really was not that concerned about it….UNTIL…..lots of people told me I should be.  They didn’t tell me word for word exactly but as the subject came up at work, or even outside of work, people would say things like, “Oh no, what are you going to do”, “Are you still going to have a job”, or “How long until you’re out of a job”.  I brushed off the first few comments with a “Oh, I’ll be fine” but then after about the fifth or sixth time I started to think maybe I should be worried.  I mean, if everyone else is so worried, I should be too, right?  It really had not occurred to me to be anxious about it until then.  I had figured that I was a good employee, a hard worker, and most importantly, God was in control of my future, not a corporation.  But now, with all the voices speaking doubt into my faith, I was shaken.  My calm assurance turned to frantic panic all because I was listening to the wrong voices.  My circumstances had not changed but my perspective had.  To make a long story short, I ended up keeping my job and it actually turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened in my professional career.  There were unexpected financial blessings and my working situation is now a best case scenario.  I’ve been through another acquisition and three company reorganizations since then, and each time I determined to keep a worry-free perspective.  God is my Provider and Defender, so what’s there to worry about?    

Have there been times in your life when you were shaken by voices of doubt?