What Do You Fear?
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I think it is so wonderful how God teaches, so we have to learn all His words to get it straight. We are taught to have no fear at all, that with the whole armor of God we have absolute protection. We are taught that the entire law is an expression of love, love creates our boundaries. God has absolute power over us and our world, and we are to be afraid of that power. When we misuse that power, it is something to be very afraid of.
Once a friend of mine faced some hard things to cope with, and told me how frightened she was. I convinced her to watch the flight of birds and the beauty of a rose as proof of God watching over her, that God was in her world, too. With this new way of looking at her problems, she stopped crying and starting coping.
Once a friend of mine faced some hard things to cope with, and told me how frightened she was. I convinced her to watch the flight of birds and the beauty of a rose as proof of God watching over her, that God was in her world, too. With this new way of looking at her problems, she stopped crying and starting coping.
I fear that my failures will hinder the work of God. I want to finish this race with a good conscience and a good record. I want my works to be gold tried in the fire, not wood, hay, and stubble. I know I am going to heaven but I fear going there with no one that I can say joined me in following Christ. I want to disciple people into the kingdom. I do not want to show up at the gates without the blood of the enemy the Devil on my hands.
My greatest fear is becoming one of the people Jesus warned about. I always fear of not being humble, I always am afraid of walking of the path set before me. I always have regret that I do not love others like i know i should, that I can't see them as the lord does. And when i feel completely disconnected from the lord for more than one day a bit of fear sometimes pops up.
But fear is a choice, it's lie and one of satans strongest weapons
But fear is a choice, it's lie and one of satans strongest weapons
We (humans) are naturally fearful creatures (e.g. who hasn't been afraid of the dark?) and we tend to make up nonsense about things we don't understand. Once we understand something, i.e. once we understand the truth of something, we have less need to fear it.
Indeed, truth is something we all naturally fear. But once we understand truth, we become fearless, and are then empowered to act boldly. A leader is someone who understands some truth, or a distortion of it, and who feeds people understanding. Once we hear what we can understand of a truth and agree with, we become less fearful of an unknown, and also feel empowered to act boldly.
The danger is that nobody really knows or understands TRUTH the way God does. Even the message revealed to us through Jesus is a distortion of the TRUTH, because we hear it with ears which cannot hear, or see it with eyes which cannot see. We naturally have fear, then, of TRUTH (God), but not the one who reveals it (Jesus)...
Still, while nobody understands TRUTH, we offer ourselves what we think is truth or distort what we hear in order to understand it thereby removing our fear of it...
However, it is impossible to know completely, absolutely, 100 percent of God's TRUTH... therefore, naturally be fearful of it.
Indeed, truth is something we all naturally fear. But once we understand truth, we become fearless, and are then empowered to act boldly. A leader is someone who understands some truth, or a distortion of it, and who feeds people understanding. Once we hear what we can understand of a truth and agree with, we become less fearful of an unknown, and also feel empowered to act boldly.
The danger is that nobody really knows or understands TRUTH the way God does. Even the message revealed to us through Jesus is a distortion of the TRUTH, because we hear it with ears which cannot hear, or see it with eyes which cannot see. We naturally have fear, then, of TRUTH (God), but not the one who reveals it (Jesus)...
Still, while nobody understands TRUTH, we offer ourselves what we think is truth or distort what we hear in order to understand it thereby removing our fear of it...
However, it is impossible to know completely, absolutely, 100 percent of God's TRUTH... therefore, naturally be fearful of it.
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