"But perfect LOVE drives out fear." 1 John 4:18
I often find it hard NOT to fear. I fear being alone. I fear rejection. I fear having to change. I fear staying the same. I fear getting hit in my car. I fear being found false. I fear that my life will have no meaning. I fear that I will not be good enough. I fear that I will be forgotten.
Fear, when it gets a grip, holds me captive. It makes it impossible to live life, the kind of life God intended for me. I find that Satan often uses fear to come after me, to make me not trust God. But the truth is-I have NO reason to fear. God is in complete control. Now while that is something my spirit knows so well-my flesh struggles with it a lot. My flesh wants to TAKE control. That is when the fear takes hold- because the reality is- I KNOW i do not have control and that if I did things would not end well. There is this battle between what IS true(that God is over everything and in everything) and what I sometimes believe to be true(that I have control of certain things)
