Unstoppable

"Now behold, you will be and will continue to be silent and not able to speak till the day when these things take place, because you have not believed what I told you; but my words are of a kind which will be fulfilled in the appointed and proper time," says Gabriel to Zachariah concerning Zachariah's response to God planning a child for him and his wife recorded in Luke 1:20 Amplified Bible.

When God speaks through His messengers He expects us to be welcoming and working toward manifesting His words not contradicting Him through withdrawal, avoidance, disbelief and rebellion. God has big visions. Zachariah and his wife, Elizabeth, were too old to be having a baby. To God, so what! If God wills it, it will be.

Feeling fear is not a sin. Sin enters when we act in fear toward God and His people. God likes to be chased and cooperated with not avoided and confronted with our attempts to block Him.

One of the wonderful things about some young people is the large capacity to believe the bold and to act on it. In 1967 Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland. Early in life she showed enthusiasm about education and an extraordinary ability to learn. However, her father could not afford to educate her beyond early childhood. Instead of responding to the obstacle with fear, unbelief and fighting to stay down, Marie took a job as a teacher then later as a governess to fund her advanced educational dreams.

We need others to help us develop the gifts God places in us. Marie and her sister, Bronislawa, helped each other. Marie paid for Bronislawa's education with her earnings from her governess job. When Bronislawa completed her studies, Bronislawa paid for Marie to attend university.

Unlike these Polish sisters some people are like fearful, unbelieving, fighting-to-stay-down crabs. Everyone has gifts from God, but some crabs don't work their gifts and would rather spend their time stagnating and sucking others down. When Marie and Bronislawa didn't have much money instead of stagnating and sucking each other down, they suffered to help each other.

Satan loves crabs. They work hard to destroy themselves and others. A fisherman puts bait in a wire cage and lowers the cage into the water. One crab after another after another enters the cage. When the bait is gone, the crabs could climb up out of the cage, but most don't.

If one tries, the other crabs will gang up on it to keep it down. Some people will gang up on us and try to stop us from leaving traps we are in. They aren't going where God calls, and they want to make sure we don't go either. Crabs will repeatedly pull a crab trying to escape off the side of the cage. If the crab is persistent, the others will tear off its claws to keep it from climbing. If it persists further, they will kill it. The cage is eventually hauled in, and all the crabs inside are eaten.

Marie and Bronislawa were not willing to have their educational dreams eaten by a lack of individual resources. Their work together helped both to become scientists.

By 1891 Marie studied at the world-famous Sorbonne in France. She also became the school's first female teacher.

People who overcome fear, unbelief, the crab-staying-down mentality live in and find more love because they are open to and willing to overcome the obstacles that could separate people. Marie married a physics professor in 1895. They devoted their lives to science. In 1903 Marie shared the Nobel Prize in physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. In 1911 Marie Sklodowska-Curie won a Nobel Prize for chemistry by herself.

Marie is the first person to earn two Nobel Prizes each in sciences. She developed a theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes and discovered the elements polonium and radium. Sklodowska-Curie coined the term "radioactivity." She was one of the first to suggest using radiation to treat cancer. Curie helped usher in the atomic age and revolutionize chemistry, physics and medicine — while fighting deep prejudice against women in the sciences.

Not fear, not unbelief, not poverty, not a crab mindset stopped Marie from manifesting the gifts of God inside her. The love of sister, spouse and self formed a force stronger than the opposition.

And the best love of all is receiving the love of God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost. With God we have all the love and everything else good we need to make our lives work and to share with others. God's love protects us from and propels us in spite of crabs. Black South African Jonathan Butler sings in "Falling In Love With Jesus" from his album Falling In Love With Jesus Best of Worship, "In His arms I feel protected. In His arms never disconnected. . . . There's no place I'd . . .  rather . . . be."