Isaiah 41:10 (CSB) Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand.
What would do if I were not afraid? Would I bungee jump? Or skydive? Would I swim cross an ocean? Would I swim in the ocean? Would I climb the highest mountain or laugh in the face of a ridiculous bully?
None of the above would I do. Mostly because they really don't interest me. What I will do is love without restrictions or inhibitions. Lately, Abba has been teaching me about love. Not the kind we see in the movies where it's about someone meeting my needs and I in return doing the same.
He's teaching me about real love where you're willing to lay down your life for a friend. Love that will die so that you can live. Love that's being perfected in Him. I have come to see fear for how despicable is truly is. I am understanding the meaning of the scripture, "There is no fear in love, for perfect love cast out fear. The two cannot coexist for one will rule in your heart.
Several years ago Abba told me that fear is that high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Him. All through the scripture before Abba gives instruction to His chosen people he addresses their fears. He assures them that He is with them. He is love. If love is with you, what do you have to be afraid of?
Their faces? Death? Pain? Rejection? Abandonment? Failure? All the things Jesus must have felt when He hung on the cross. Yet we claim to want to be like Him, but we fear the consequence of our choice on this temporal plane of existence. Love is eternal and the only thing that separates us as disciples of Christ.
I decided to love intentionally, to be an encourager, to esteem others above myself. To lay down my life for love. No one can take what you laid down. No one.
Fearless
What would do if I were not afraid? Would I bungee jump? Or skydive? Would I swim cross an ocean? Would I swim in the ocean? Would I climb the highest mountain or laugh in the face of a ridiculous bully?
None of the above would I do. Mostly because they really don't interest me. What I will do is love without restrictions or inhibitions. Lately, Abba has been teaching me about love. Not the kind we see in the movies where it's about someone meeting my needs and I in return doing the same.
He's teaching me about real love where you're willing to lay down your life for a friend. Love that will die so that you can live. Love that's being perfected in Him. I have come to see fear for how despicable is truly is. I am understanding the meaning of the scripture, "There is no fear in love, for perfect love cast out fear. The two cannot coexist for one will rule in your heart.
Several years ago Abba told me that fear is that high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Him. All through the scripture before Abba gives instruction to His chosen people he addresses their fears. He assures them that He is with them. He is love. If love is with you, what do you have to be afraid of?
Their faces? Death? Pain? Rejection? Abandonment? Failure? All the things Jesus must have felt when He hung on the cross. Yet we claim to want to be like Him, but we fear the consequence of our choice on this temporal plane of existence. Love is eternal and the only thing that separates us as disciples of Christ.
I decided to love intentionally, to be an encourager, to esteem others above myself. To lay down my life for love. No one can take what you laid down. No one.
Fearless
