Fear No Fear

“Let the peace of God, to which also you are called in one body, rule in your hearts. And be thankful” (Colossians 3:15, MEV). We are ALLOWED to have peace in our minds and in our hearts. We do NOT have to let anxiety, depression, or the cares of this world overwhelm us OR take up residence inside of us. They are ALLOWED to be external things. We don’t stop thinking of them or think only happy things. That’s an ineffective strategy. What we CAN do is to REPLACE them with God’s peace. One of the ways we do that is by maintaining an attitude of thanksgiving toward God for what He has provided. We accept the gift, and then we are thankful for the gift. It will only get better and better. We will only feel more and more peace. If we rely on Him more and more, getting more of His peace inside us, there will ALWAYS be less and less room for the negative. We will be able to look at what’s going on and have it NOT overwhelm us. We will be able to be even in our thinking and our chosen emoting when we rely on Him to be the baseline, the source, the foundation of everything we process. We are called to His peace. We are called to fellowship. We are called to be thankful for of this that HE makes possible because He loves us. Practising His presence makes peaceful. And I am SO GRATEFUL for it.