What is courage?

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 New International Version

13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 14 Do everything in love. Courage is your best friend. It’s the voice that tells you to step out in faith into the deep. Courage can be the strength you need to walk away from temptation. Courage will allow you to grow in your faith. God will give us courage in our uncertainty. He allows us the strength to be brave in life. I can remember so many amazing moments when God used faith and courage to help me mature in my faith by having me step out and travel to different places like Canada with my sisters (Story for another day 😆). He gave me courage to realize I was wrong in my actions or attitude and helped me apologize to the people I kept hurting because I wasn't healed. Courage can take form in so many different ways. You just have take a deep breath and go for it. It’s just another form of faith. Believe it or not, I really love to travel, but fear would make this false imagination that something bad would happen. For example, if I got on a plane or stayed at certain hotel, I imagined something bad would happen. For me, traveling takes great courage. Even when I travel solo now, I have to use wisdom and pray, but most of all, I have to have faith that God is protecting me and courage to say, “Devil your are a liar. I’m going on this trip.” This makes me laugh because, family, I really have talk myself into going on trips. We will discuss fear later. 😒 So for now, know you are not alone and every day we will need courage just to live in today's world as believers. Say "I have courage through Christ."