FEAR.

During the course of my life, I have come to the realization that fear promotes our inability to raise challenging questions to ourselves regarding our origin, purpose and destiny in life. It also robs us of the privilege we have to search the Word of God for the answers.

Fear is the reason why we live our lives in a darkened state of existence, chaos and despair. This is the same chaotic condition that the world was in before God spoke light into the darkness. Fear is our biggest enemy. It suppresses our ability to focus and trust in the perfect engineering and authority of God’s Word. It has developed in us a system of doubt in God’s sovereignty in our lives. Now we feel free to question the essence of God’s Deity, His character and attributes. God’s omnipotence is put on a trial when sight and circumstances birth fear in our minds and becomes the barometers of how we think and live.

God’s original intent for humans was to be the chief agents in His Agency. Fear is not an attribute of God. It is a consequence of the Sin nature inherited from Adam, and has become the leading cause of man’s failure to execute God’s best for his life. We have now become gods to ourselves constructing lifestyles that are destructive and depraved. We live recklessly,far from God’s expectation. We are constantly repeating the mistakes of our fathers in the name of progress. We are mastering the art of becoming wandering generalities rather than becoming a meaningful and pragmatic specific. Like kids playing with lego blocks we are constantly building and rebuilding the structures of our lives without a plan or design. Our minds are constantly whispering to us that we are created for significance, designed and destined for greatness. We don’t really know who and what we are called to be. In our carnality we think first and then we believe. In Christ the Holy Spirit teaches us that we have to believe first and then we think using the Bible as our source of wisdom and ultimate authority.

Believing stems inwardly for the Christian, the non Christian’s thought and world view is personified, centered and expressed based on what they can see sense or experience. Our belief system is the framework of our character and our character eventually shapes our destiny.

In Christ we are called to be people of Faith. Faith is a reasoned trust. Faith in itself has no value. The essence of our Faith depends on the substance upon which that Faith is based on. Application of our Faith is also dependent on the goals we set for our lives. Those goals have to be based on God’s priority for our lives. We are then required to nurture the disciplines that bridge the tension between our goals and accomplishments.

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