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Embrace the Fear
We’re made for fear. We’re made to live with fear, not without it, as we’d like. It’s just, as so often happens, we get preoccupied with things we can see, hear, and touch. But these aren’t what we’re supposed to fear — not people, nor circumstances. About such things, our King, Jesus Christ says, “do not fear” (Luke 12:4-5, 22-24). No, we’re meant to fear a fearsome God.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” (Proverbs 1:7)
But what does it mean to fear God? Well, mostly it means keeping our thinking straight. It means seeing God in all His power — in proper relation and proportion — to the people and problems in this world. Though we sometimes act as if He were smaller than financial hardship, difficult work situations, difficulties with children, He isn't, He’s not equal to them. He’s so much bigger and so much more powerful. Comparing God to those things doesn’t make sense. He’s Alpha and Omega. He’s the beginning and the end of everything.
What’s astonishing is this fearsome God, for some reason chooses to love each of us with fierce love — a love that is good and will never relent. So, to Him, we must not respond as if we’ve been conditioned to respond to fear — by seeking to control, numb, minimize, or avoid our circumstances. We must respond by recognizing, every day and every moment, that He’s the most important, most powerful force in our lives, and that we’re His favored sons and daughters.
Okay, so what do we do?
Name your biggest fears. Write them down. Look at them. Imagine them as God sees them. How frightening are they now? The truth is, things we can see, hear, and touch are never our ultimate threats, not when God’s around — and He always is. Our ultimate threat is choosing to live as if these things are bigger than our God.
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A love for created things will cause us to ignore the Creator; a focus on the finite will cause us to miss the Infinite. So we must re-prioritize. We must begin to trust God more than we trust ourselves. Start this this 7-day plan and open your life to more of what God has for you—and join hundreds of thousands of men reading WiRE.
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