Christians' Facing Fear
Fear is one factor that can confuse the Christian faith. Yes, even Christians have their own fear, they have a darkside that are hidden into a place one could not possibly take away except of course by God's hand. But there is a way we can go beyond and learn from it. We can do so because He gave every human being strength and that strength of a Christian is not a temporal one but it is a strength that will carry them in any kind of situation that fear can manipulate. It is an eternal blessings.
There are other explanations of course that were given but each one of them are lacking the actual explanation that deals with the main dilemma of fear, but I can say that they are not as prominent today, and space forbids further exploration.
We have always marveled on why God allows us to go through certain fear and undergo a certain painful circumstance. I say, just because we find it difficult to imagine such reason God may have, it does not mean that no such reason exists.
Because of the limitations of the human perspective, we are only able to see a few apparent threads of the great tapestry of life and of the will of God (if you believe in God). Even though we do not have the full grasp of the picture to view it. That is why God have called us to trust Him. For a believer, God has a reason for allowing painful circumstances to come our way – even if we cannot grasp it – by this, our fears involves drawing us closer to Him.
This question about fear may always be occurring from us. This will not be the only time we might be asking but expect our selves to keep on repeating the same question again and again. But the thing to consider is in what we do to get over this fear and how to get our satisfaction answered and only by putting our trust in Him. We may say, “It is sound silly, if He is a good God, why he needs us to feel this fear.” Yes, we could say that because we are subjected to it to question God, and we all do. We may not understand that purpose in the “temporal NOW”, but however exists – our inability to discern why we fear sometimes happen to us and does not disprove God’s benevolence, it merely exposes our ignorance.
As God is the author of life, and He is also the author of hope – hope will go above fear and all its blessings flow from Him.
No matter how mysterious life seems to acquire, there are always possibilities.
Psalms 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
posted by mS eLoVe | 12:27 AM
7 Comments:
thanks for this beautiful reminder! I love the verse in 2 Timothy 1:7...
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
How incredible is that? :-)
That was quite nice.
I am strolling through blogs, and I hae been reading here a while. I thought it best I at least left a thank you note before moving on.
Thank you!
God bless...
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
It is so true that fear controls us when it need not. We can be free in Christ! Amen
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Thanks for your prayers and words of encouragment during my time of having a fit because my faith was smaller than the problems I saw.
As i am reading your post I'm truly blest. We are thankful to have a Great God who can gave us hope that overcome our fears !
Keep posting sis.
Cheers,
Mae
Are you sure God wanted us to be afraid ? As you said you cannot see the grand picture - seems to me, very much like a poor little center-city kid who is asked to do something without questioning and ends up in jail because he was unwittingly couriering drugs.
Let me ask you what you would trust more a brain that god lovingly created for you or a book that has been given to you by a priest hood which has throughout history proved itself quite capable of distorting facts for their own good.
On the one hand you have your brain which obviously has come straight from God (or if you prefer a higher power) and on the other hand a book, which mind you has been edited over the years by a corrupt priesthood, don't you think God must be crying looking at you discarding something he so lovingly created for you and blindly following others. I am pretty sure he did not come and talk to you directly. If he did, that would be a different question.
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart:and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy path.
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord and depart from evil."
Proverb:3, verse:5-7.
The only thing we are asked to do is Fear the Lord, for when we fear losing His love, we try to follow His path, For Fear of Lord is wisdom, it teaches us the path we need to take, then we fear nothing
"When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid:yea thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Be not afraid of sudden fear,neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh
For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep they foot from being taken."
Proverb:3, verse:24-26.
Fear is vanity,for we fear when we believe we are in control, but when we understand, God is in control, fear evaporates as early morning dew under the healing rays of the sun.
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