“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing
theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowances for their
doubting too,
If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just
the same,"
Ah, that is the stuff that adulthood is made of, said Rudyard Kipling.
The biggest little word in the English language is that two letter word “if." Our Scripture today is full of “ifs." If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and make God a liar. If we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sins. If we claim to have fellowship with God but walk in the dark, we lie. If we walk in the ligh…