What do you fear?
Fear has a purpose. It reveals an area in our lives of false belief because
God has told us so many times to "fear not".
Fear in life is like the haunted house or the roller coaster ride. One
thing that enables me to "enjoy" these activities is because I understand that
even though they can scare me... they can not harm me. They have
limitations.
There are things in this life that scare us. Each person has their
"boogey man". So many times, the enemy likes to take those things that brings
fear into our lives and diminish the freedom we were meant to
experience.
But God has told us so many times through scripture to "fear not." In
fact.. it is the most repeated command throughout the whole Bible.
Here are just a few times that God deals with fear in the Bible:
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:10
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7
These are just a couple.
As you read this post.. I know that it will ring true with you. But...
just letting it ring true will not be enough to change how you deal with this
fear. It might encourage you for today.. But tomorrow.. those fears will
come back to torment. We have to take God's word and revelation and
constantly repeat this lesson to ourselves so we don't forget it. Jews
even to this day wear scripture on their bodies to remind themselves of God's
word. We are told throughout scripture to meditate on God's word.
For me to learn this lesson of dealing with my fears.. I have to write it
down. I have to set alarms on my phone alarm frequently to remind
myself. I have to be diligent in order to truly learn this
lesson.
One of my biggest fears is a fear of depression. Depression consumed a
large chuck of my life. Today, I walk in a lot of victory over that
dreaded disease. Praise God! But.. there are times that I wake up and I
there is a sense of heaviness and depression that I face. To be honest
it used to scare me. I had this fear that I was going to slip back into
this abyss. Now.... I am learning to realize that it is just like that
huanted house or that roller coaster ride. It was meant to scare
me.... but it can not!
I will constantly remind myself ot this fact until... I just naturally walk in
the freedom that God desires for me.
Boo!
Be blessed!
