Fear

All of us have something that we fear. Maybe its fear of heights or something deeper like rejection or another emotion. Most of the time we use fear as an excuse to not do something, because we don’t think it will work out. We love to tell God about how important He is to us and how big He is until we become scared with fear, and then fear overshadows our God. We live in a society that is gripped by fear, and we are called to live above fear because our God is bigger than anything that we will ever encounter. If we all allow fear to take hold of us, we will never be able to live the life that God has called us to.

Most of the things that scare us are things that we do not want to give God control over. We watch them spiral out of our control and begin to worry about the outcome. To live a fear free life, God wants to be given complete control over all aspects of our lives. Initially there will be some fear, but it will get much easier for us.

One thing that we as humans do is sometimes tell God our problems and fears like He can’t do anything about it. In Mathew 14, the Bible tells us of the storm that Jesus ask Peter to walk on water. Mathew 14:29-31 says

“Come,” he said.

Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”

Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”

The reason why Peter sank was that he removed his eyes from Jesus, and looked around and was afraid. He had fear about his circumstance because at first Peter allowed Jesus to control what was going on, then he looked around and tried to control it himself. We as Christians do the same thing, and we must break the cycle of society. Even in the hard times, we can not take our eyes off of God.

The only way to counter fear is true love. Think back to something you were afraid of as a child. Maybe it was the dark or monsters were going to come out from your closet. In these times that you were afraid, you went to your parents because they comforted you. You went to them because you knew that they love you. Somewhere along the line as we got older, we began to not apply this to our Heavenly Father. 1 John 4:18 says

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.

We know that there is only perfect love though Jesus. So we should ask ourselves what we are fearing, and we need to give those areas over to God. Life without fear is much better than being consumed by fear.

There is an acceptable type of fear, and that is the Fear of God. Thoughout the bible, we hear of the spiritual leaders fearing God. Fear of God is looked upon as deep respect, greater than any other respect. Abraham was looked at as a man who feared God. We should have a great reverance for our God, and be willing to follow the promps that He gives us with no questions.

Fear is only bad when we allow it to control our lives and actions. If we have fear of God, we have it out of reverance, and we should strive to have that type of regard for our Creator. If there is something that we fear other than God, we need to search ourselves and give that control over to God so that we can live without fear.

So if your not already, begin to live a life without fear. Give up control of areas that you fear, and although its a process you will be glad that you did in the end.

Dive Deep,

KC