A constant theme I’ve found for the past two months from pastors, from reading, from listening to people is fear. Not the fear that debilitates, but the fear that is like a constant nagging, prodding. It is like we have a cloud that follows us around, hanging over our heads. It is the worry, the dread about something happening to me or my loved ones that I will not like.
Such a state of mind should not be a part of the Believer’s life. And yet, I’ve heard the fear, the worry from people in the church. Fear, worry is really (unless it prods us into action to deal with the situation about which we are afraid), our failure to trust God. Not a failure to trust in God, but a failure to trust God. We can trust in God for our salvation and still not trust God with our lives. But why would anyone trust God for eternal life, but not trust Him for our daily life? Yet that is what fear says we are doing.
Is there a solution to this problem? Is there a way to overcome fear? I am so glad you asked, because there is. We don’t need to live in fear any longer.
Step #1. Read Job 1 & 2. Underline the passages where Job gives thanks to God, where he worships God, where he continues to trust God even though all the “bad” things that happen to him and his family. Then read Job 38:1 – 42:6. This is God’s answer to all of Job’s “WHY?” questions. When the why comes to you, remember God’s answer to Job. It is the same answer He gives us when “bad” things happen to us and we ask why.
More steps to rid our lives of fear are coming soon.
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