Fear No Fear

“It is in vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, and to eat the bread of hard toil, for He gives sleep to His beloved” (Psalm 127:2, MEV). You might hear that it’s natural to worry. Or that you can’t help but worry. That you suffer from worry when you’re around other people in a social situation. Or that worry paralyzes you. These are real FEELINGS that people have and there are various REASONS why they feel them. The truth is that those feelings are not useful. They have no value for a human being. All they do is spend emotional energy. Use up time better spent resting. And prevent human connection. Even the people suffering under it know it. They feel they can’t help it, though. But we serve a God who prepares us to get out from under it. We are NOT subjects to worry, but to Almighty God. He empowers us to cast off worry, not by ignoring it or thinking happy thoughts, but by giving it to Him. In exchange, HIS PEACE is given to us. His food is GOOD and PURE and causes NO WORRY. He is MORE THAN ENOUGH to take our cares. After we give them, all we’re doing when something comes to mind is reminding it, Him, and ourselves that HE has it, not us. We can direct worry to go to Him, because you’re out of it. You’re waiting on Him, and you KNOW whatever He does is going to be GOOD. How great is that? He wants you WORRY FREE so He makes a Way for you to BE worry free. When He calls us to something, He ALWAYS makes sure that we CAN in fact do it. EVERY TIME. More than that, He makes sure we can do it because of what HE has done and who HE is, not our efforts. THAT is love.