Unafraid

One of the great afflictions of mankind is fear. Fear seeks to hold us in bondage and uses torment to keep us bound to the chains of imaginations and machinations of what might be or could be. Fear creates bondage where there is none.

The root fear, according to scripture, is the fear of death. Jesus defeated death and he defeated the fear of death. Through His death, he delivered “them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” Heb. 2:14.

That fear infected our relationship with God. Instead of seeing God as a loving father, we saw Him as a vindictive micromanaging ruler; we thought God wanted to spoil our lives with religious rules, a list of do’s and don’t’s to rob us of our enjoyment of life.

That’s the lens through which fear views God. But Jesus, by His Spirit, restores us to see clear who Our Father is. “The Spirit you [we] received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” Rom. 8:15, NIV.

 "The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

“God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Tim. 1:7, NKJV. Now we can walk unafraid with a clear vision that’s unobstructed by fear. Fear no longer grips us, our hearts have been made free: we are sons of God’s love not slaves to fear.

Today, I want to encourage you to live your life unafraid. If you’re tormented in any way by fear, you can be free. Fear is no longer your master. Nothing, absolutely nothing, you face can stop what God has started in you. You have a say in this matter. Isn’t it time you said, “goodbye!”, to fear?

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