Have
you ever noticed what a bully fear is? It
keeps me from stepping out in faith and trying something new. It makes me doubt my experience and abilities. It reminds me that “I’m not good enough” and
never will be. It keeps my focus on the
past and not the present, much less looking with hope toward the future. It make me doubt my ability to learn, grow
and improve. It makes me hesitant to
take a risk because I might fail and look really stupid. An unhealthy fear makes me doubt God.
Fear
keeps the focus on me, not God. Seeing fear
at work in a loved one is painful. The encouraging
words I try to speak are not heard, they are drowned out by fear.
So
how can I combat that bully fear? Beat
down with the truth from God’s word.
Truth about who God is and what He has promised in the Bible. Truth about who I am in Christ.
Defeating
a bully make take time. Defeating fear
is worth all the hard work and effort.
The
fear that we should retain is a holy reverence and fear of God. That is a wise and prudent fear I want to
retain.
What
would life without being bullied by fear look like?
2 comments:
I've been struggling with this too. I sometimes repress some of my thoughts and feelings, and parts of my personality, from fear of people around me disapproving of them.
Dear Jim,
When I started thinking about writing about fear I thought I was seeing fear in someone else's life. When I wrote it out the Lord showed me how I have let fear dominate my life.
Through God's work and His word alive in us, may we not let fear have an unhealthy hold on us. May we fear God first and foremost.
Lord bless...Susan
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