Fear No Fear

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

who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with loyal love and mercies,

Psalm 103:4

More than enough. It is a mentality we can have because Adonai is MORE THAN ENOUGH for anything and everything we encounter – whether a positive or a negative. He is more than enough for our trials – who can stand against Him (Isaiah 14:27)? He is more than enough for our spiritual lives – He blessed us with EVERY spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3). He is more than enough for our world – He can overturn nations in a day (Isaiah 66:8). He is more than enough for our needs – He provides ALL our needs (Philippians 4:19) and listens for our wants (1 John 5:15; James 4:3). Adonai is MORE THAN ENOUGH for us and we need to remember that.

It would be enough to remember that He saved us. It doesn’t matter if you had a small amount of things bad or a huge amount of things bad in your life. The bad was taken away, wasn’t it? Not necessarily the circumstances, but the emotional bondage. The heaviness of spirit. The LESS THAN. That’s why despair is so easy to give into in the world. There is a pointlessness to life without real LIFE. We cover it up in various ways, but the chains are still there. Rubbing us raw. There is a HUGE relief when we are set free. When we are saved from all of it. When WE are no longer under the burden of payment. That alone is enough for us to have grateful hearts. To be JOYFUL every day. But of course, even THAT fades when we don’t remember it. When we get USED to it. When it becomes the new normal and every day again seems the same. We need to keep things in the FRONT of our minds, not the back. Take all the visual cues from the world around us and be truly thankful we have been freed from that – without judging those who are still chained.

We are ALL the same. We were ALL sinners. We were ALL in Sin. Our individual sins vary, but we are ALL sinners. Sinning in a single way is as bad as sinning in all the ways because ANY sin is rebellion against Adonai. The consequences here on Earth vary, but in the eyes of Adonai we are ALL the SAME (James 2:10). How can we justify being disgusted or feeling better than someone simply because they are doing something we haven’t? The chances are high that WE have done things that THEY have not. We are ALL the SAME. And we need to REMEMBER that. It is a SIMPLE one to forget. Our flesh helps, too. It is not only selfish, but it is PROUD. It doesn’t like being told what to do and it likes to feel superior to others. Since we ALL have sinned, we can ALL be redeemed. We can ALL feel the lightness, that lifting of burdens. We should be eager to help other people get to the Light. To experience the same freedom we were given – by grace through His mercy and not by our own achievements. Everyone should get to feel this free. It is the best feeling in the world.

And Adonai doesn’t stop there. He doesn’t ‘just’ free us. He doesn’t ‘just’ pay the price for us. He also crowns us. He doesn’t only lift us up, He lifts us up and heaps love and mercy on us too. That should make us shout right there. Shout and KEEP ON shouting. Because there is no end to the heights He lifts us as we remain humbly submitted to Him in obedience and thanksgiving. He gave us not what WE deserved, but what HE deserved. What JESUS deserved. “He made the one who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). He not only MADE the Way, He made the way we walk the Way. Because of that, the Fruit of the Spirit are ours. Because of that, the armour of God is ours. Because of that, we can speak in the Name of Jesus in His place. We have it ALL because of Him.

A man of God once said, ‘I don’t need to fight. I need to know who I am in Jesus and the victory is mine because Jesus won it.’ John 15:5 shows us we have everything we need because we are in Jesus and JESUS did it all. He finished it. If we stand on that, the devil flees. We don’t have to fight him if our light is shining. It shines brightest when we REMEMBER all that the Lord has done for us, the places He found us, and the places were we allowed to walk today and all the days afterward. We need to remember who we are IN HIM.

Daily Affirmation of the Goodness of Elohim: John 8:36

“So if the son sets you free, you will be truly free.” There is a LOT in my life I am free of. I can look back and get thankful I am free from being the way I was. I can walk a grocery store and get thankful I am free from dietary choices I used to make. I can look at my family, my employment, my time spent, and almost anything and find myself being thankful for what I have been freed of. I have been freed of broken thinking, broken words, broken promises, and broken actions. I have been set free! Whenever temptation comes knocking, I can say look at what i have been freed from! And do it with a smile. What a GOOD God!

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