Daily devotion – faith not fear
Fear – an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by expectation or awareness of danger; an instance of or state marked by this emotion. Anxious concern, dread, alarm, fright panic, terror, trepidation. (Websters Dictionary)
What are you anxious about today? What do you fear? What worries you?
Would you be willing to hand all these issues over to God right now?
The Bible tells us in no uncertain terms that God does not want us to fear or worry.
Mat 6:25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Mat 6:34 “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
God promised that “He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” – Philippians 1:6
Paul when writing of the opposite of fear spoke to us about Abraham. That Abraham, “..did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.” – Romans 4:20
God is faithful and He also keeps His promises.
Even though we have no idea how God will deliver us or see us through the hard times, we can still learn to thank Him because we have a promise.
This is faith – the kind of faith that dispels fear.
You can trust God, because He made you dependent on Him and gave you the ability to trust Him the same way a baby rests peacefully in the arms of their mother. The moment you surrender to God in trust, the moment you pray – “Lord, here is my life, all my stuff, my family – all of it! It is all Yours, and if I perish, I perish” – you will enter His rest and find His peace deep within your soul.
Paul said, “7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” – Romans 14: 7-8
Paul was undaunted because God held his future.
This week, God wants you to learn to live without fear, and to begin to learn to live by faith.