Fear No Fear

“For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and self-control” (2 Timothy 1:7). I believe in free will. Freedom of choice. It’s a God-given RIGHT. Choices not from fear. Not because we’re anxious or scared or depressed. Choices with the authority of our will behind them. Choices we own. Choices made with self-control. We don’t like being told this. Take abortion. People always stand on the statement ‘my body, my choice’. They’re right. But they’re applying the choice at the wrong point. We don’t decide that a meal is unhealthy AFTER we eat it. We don’t decide that drugs are addictive and destructive AFTER we shoot  up. And we don’t decide a baby isn’t for us AFTER sex. Just like a grease-laden meal full of highly processed ingredients COULD be the one that kicks off a heart attack, every time we have sex procreation MIGHT occur. You can try and mitigate food related issues with extremely unhealthy behaviour like vomiting. You can try and mitigate sexual immorality with abortion. But it is just spiritual bulimia. It won’t deal with the underlying cause. It won’t prevent the spiritual damage and moral degradation that happens when we veer from the objective values God has clearly stated. Remember, they are OUR bodies and OUR spirits so the choices are OURS. Make sure you’re applying the choice at the right spot. BEFORE the destructive and sinful behaviour, not afterward (Genesis 4:7). We have been given a spirit of self-control. It’s our responsibility to use our authority properly. The choices are ours.