Fear No Fear

“again He establishes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David, after so long a time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”” (Hebrews 4:7. MEV). God loves us enough to speak to us directly, spirit to spirit. Do we love Him enough to listen? Truly listen? Do we having heard, HEAR Him? God draws us to Himself (Acts 17:30). None of us can come to God unless the Father calls us (John 6:44). It takes God to pull the wool from our eyes and let us see our need clearly. But once we have heard the call. Once we know the truth, WE must make the choice to accept everything He’s done for us (Romans 10:9). It doesn’t stop there. Every day Jesus speaks to us. Every day He has something to say to us. And every day we need to LISTEN. Actively listen. That means listening, clarifying what we think we heard, and then obeying. Jesus will NEVER tell us something that contradicts the Word. And the Word will never contradict anything Jesus tells us. It’s one of the proofs that He is actually speaking. He can be trusted. He is faithful. And He wants us to understand Him. And if we love Him, we’ll naturally obey Him. We’ll naturally want to do what He has told us. Because when we love someone, we want to please them. We want to see them smile. We don’t want to do things that will make them unhappy or displease them. It’s the same with Jesus (John 14:15). It is OUR CHOICE whether or not we obey. It’s OUR CHOICE whether or not we are going to accept that Jesus is talking to us or whether we are going to reject His voice and ignore Him. It’s OUR CHOICE whether or not we’re going to BELIEVE Him. If we refuse to believe Him, refuse to trust in Him, then we’re hardening our hearts. If we choose to believe Him and choose to trust in Him, we’ll keep our hearts pliable. We’ll be recognizing our own limitations and choosing to accept that He has none. That He’s the one in charge. That His way WORKS. God loves us and wants us to cooperate with Him. Freely, from love. He is trustworthy. He is faithful. He is good. We need to do it consciously, but we can do it because HE is everything He says that He is. And so are we. We are everything He says that we are. Let’s start acting like it and stay humble and willing before Him.