Fear No Fear

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

“Or can a person hide himself in secret places and I cannot see him?” declares Yahweh. “Do I not fill up the heaven and the earth?” declares Yahweh.”

Jeremiah 23:24

We all want to be seen. We don’t want to be forever strangers. We want someone to see us as we are and like us. When we aren’t seen we get demoralized and sad. If I can’t be seen, even when I am standing RIGHT HERE, does that mean I don’t matter? We all want to matter. To know that we were here for a reason. That chance did not in any way play a part in our existence. It is integral to our humanness to have a reason that we exist. When we don’t feel seen, we can have a whole slew of feelings come upon us. But we don’t need to be at the mercy of our brains. We have been given the ability to self-regulate. We have self control (2 Timothy 1:7). The issue is, if we’re rejecting those feelings, what are we replacing them with? Wishful thinking doesn’t work. Declaring things that have no basis in reality doesn’t work. And yes, we can go digging and extrapolate things and find something that fits the bill. But it’s easier to just go to TRUTH and let IT be the foundation on which we build our emotional reality. So what is the truth?

The truth is that we are seen. Always. Forever. Adonai SEES us. He saw us when we were in the womb. He saw us when we were children. He saw us when we were teenagers. He saw us when we climbed into adulthood. He saw us when we were sinners. He saw us when we were ignorant of His existence in a conscious way. He saw us when we learned of Him. He saw us when we accepted His offer and submitted to Him. When we received salvation. He sees us now. He’ll continue to see us in the future. He sees us when we’re praising Him. He sees us if and when we try to hide. There is no getting away from Him seeing us. He sees us ALL THE TIME. He always has. He always will. Adonai sees us.

That enables us to choose. We can wallow in the feelings that come on us when other humans don’t see us. Or we can choose to recognize that THEY might not see us but HE always does. It helps us navigate the circumstances that can be caused by not being seen. It can help us avoid feelings AND circumstances that can arise. It opens a way for us to hear from Ruach HaKodesh about the solution for our circumstances without having to come up with a justification for it. We can simply be relieved He sees us, ask for wisdom, and obey what He tells us. Who wants to deal with anger or shame or stress or the places those feelings want to push us into when we could have real peace (Proverbs 3:17). Being seen by Adonai puts us where we can ask for and receive real solutions to our circumstances.

Adonai isn’t seeing us and laughing at us. Mocking us. Deriding us. Or waiting to smack us a good one. Adonai is seeing us, feeling compassion, and telling Ruach HaKodesh what to tell us so that we can have comfort and a solution. Sometimes that means hearing what the correct question is. Jesus spent most of His time during His earthly ministry answering people’s questions with the correct question for that situation. To get them to consider the truth of the situation. To wrestle with the correct thing, not the false thing. When we are wrestling with the correct thing, the answers are often easily apparent – or at least the direction in which we will find them. The right question brings CLARITY to a situation. Often the right question helps us to reject the incorrect information coming in (wrong feelings), because they’re coming upon us in reaction to a situation that isn’t even happening in the first place. Sound complicated? Well, the devil’s main weapon is words that confuse the TRUTH with the conceivable. Many things MAY be true or true from a certain point of view, but only the TRUTH is truly TRUE.

The TRUTH is that Adonai sees us. But He not only sees us in the NOW, He sees who we CAN BE in Jesus. He sees the future superimposed on the present and then instructs Ruach HaKodesh to instruct, guide, and correct us until WE can see what HE sees. How cool is that? Not only is He always with us (Hebrews 13:5), but He always sees us (Proverbs 15:3) AND sees us in His Light (1 Peter 2:9). Anytime that we aren’t feeling that, we can ask Ruach HaKodesh and He’ll tell us. Again and again and again. As many times as we need to hear it. Until we understand it. Adonai loves us. For who we are and for who we are in Jesus – which is always more than we can imagine. If we let Him, He’ll work with us to get us to where we need to be. To where HE says we can be. So that we can see what He sees when He looks at us. So that we will be seen and KNOW that we are seen and know the WHO that is being seen in us. Every day. Every time. Secure in Jesus and full of JOY.

Daily Affirmation of the Goodness of Elohim: Philippians 4:4

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.” In Jesus we always have joy. That is where joy is found. It isn’t in experiences. It isn’t in human relationships. It isn’t in accomplishments or achievements. It isn’t in possessions, stocks, or piles of shiny things. It isn’t in anything we can have, do, say, experience, or create in any way. It is in Jesus. In Jesus, we can rejoice. For what He has accomplished. For where He has brought us. For what He has created and restored in us. For what He offers to us. There is REAL JOY in Him. He is the JOY that was given to the world before the world was. He is the JOY that became our LIGHT. He is the JOY that offers to us a chance to enter into His covenant with the Father. He is JOY. PURE JOY. And we have not only the ability, but the RIGHT to take Joy in Him even as He takes Joy in us (Zephaniah 3:17; Psalm 18:19). It is a spiritual law that what Adonai does first, we can also do. Adonai takes Joy so that WE can take Joy. So that we can live in Joy. So that HIS Joy can be OURS. We don’t need to MAKE it happen. We can RECEIVE it by rejoicing in Jesus. 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