Over the last few weeks Ive been in a situation which has had me gripped with fear. Now, for the most part the fear was completely irrational - the situation presented me with no additional reasons to be afraid, but I was still gripped by this fear. The result of this was that my mind would often drift to the situation and would interrupt my day. It would even interrupt my night so that I would wake up thinking about it.
This forced me to rely on God. I would walk to work repeating God's truth back to Him, which would alleviate my fear. I learned that worship is lifting my eyes from my situation to focus instead on the Glory of God. Peace, rather than being an emotional state, is a spiritual reality. I learnt to acknowledge that reality.
The most repeated command in the Bible is 'do not fear', or something to that effect. Jesus tells us not even to worry about tomorrow, about what we'll eat or what we'll wear. All things are in God's hands (Romans 8:28) and perfect love casts out all fear (1 John 4:18). That is reality.
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