Fear No Fear

(All scripture from Lexham English Bible, Copyright 2012 Logos Bible Software)

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

1 Corinthians 14:33a

The world can be a loud and confusing place. It’s full of fear and sin and mean and evil. There are also kindnesses and good things. Not everything is bad. Not everything is godly. When we see it all, it’s tempting to throw Ruach HaKodesh over our heads and hide under His covers. But that isn’t why He came. And that is not our calling.

“nor do they light a lamp and place it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines on all those in the house. In the same way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:15-16). We are NOT meant to hide. Not from the world and not because of the world. I am personally attracted to desolate places. Far flung, hard to get to, and not much around. Deserts and the Arctic for example. I’ll also accept deep in the woods where no one would run across you by accident. I have no issues homesteading and I could take or leave electricity as far as general life goes. I’m not afraid of hard work. But if I indulged in any of that for longer than a vacation, I’d be ignoring people. I wouldn’t be shining in the world but in a distant and remote bushel. This is not what any of us are called to. We get peace and quiet when we need it, but we’re meant to take His Light wherever we go.

We don’t need to be blind to the world. If we are truly saved and are working to fully understand our salvation, what hold can it have on us? We can – through Ruach HaKodesh – see people as Adonai sees them. We can start by being unseeing when it comes to the sin (as in it holds no attraction for us), but without Ruach HaKodesh to always help us align our eyes to Jesus, we’d start meditating on that sin, considering it, and then be tempted by it. If He blinded us to it, we’d either miss half the people we could help plant a seed in or we’d get blindsided by something and end up tempted or worse. We can’t be tempted by what we haven’t considered. If we don’t consider it, we aren’t tempted. If we aren’t tempted, we won’t do it. I’ve never been tempted to hit one of my babies when they were crying uncontrollably. I never even considered it. I’ve hit other people, though. Considered it. Got tempted. And punched their face. No excuse. I led myself there.

If we have blinders on, we might not realise something IS sin. If we have blinders on, we might not see that sin we considered last week lying in wait. We need to see the world and what’s in it. But we need to see it as Elohim sees it. We need to see it with the eyes of the Righteous. And we need to see it through eyes filled with Love. If we don’t we might judge them. Be disgusted by something. And cut them off without ever reaching out to tell them the simple truth of the Gospel: Jesus made a way for us to love God because God isn’t mad at you.

I don’t want to see the chaos. I don’t want to hear all the noise. I want to see the lost children and I want to speak the truth. Seeing them as Adonai sees them. Knowing what is right and wrong. And loving them in spite of it – just like Jesus did with me.

Daily Affirmation of the Goodness of Elohim: 1 John 4:16

“And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.” I am SO GRATEFUL Elohim loved me. I don’t think I was loveable (and there are still days I fight to scrub off the mud on the mirror). I don’t think I was worth it. He did. He didn’t hold my mistakes against me. My anger. My disease. He didn’t take what I did and how much I hurt myself and make that a reason to keep me in the dark. No, He sought me out and loved me until I understood He was serious. Until I realised it was true. Once I was saved I had a whole OTHER realisation to work through until I got it. He lived in me. He is – right now – filling up my heart. He is there radiating His love through me. Sending His love out and receiving mine back. I couldn’t do anything if He didn’t love me. I couldn’t manage it. I’d be lost. I am so grateful that He is SO GOOD.

Your Daily Confession of Elohim’s Goodness:

I taste and see that Yahweh is good; I am blessed because I take refuge in Him.

Psalm 34:8