Y'all know how I told you that my mind meanders? This Blahg is the result of my meandering mind this morning. It is pasted from a note on my iPhone, unedited. It's just random thoughts typed down - self talk, reminding myself of what I know to be true. Extend me grace, please.
Fear robs you of the ability to find peace. It steals your objectivity, and darkens your outlook; eclipsing hope on the horizon. Fear is an encompassing emotion, overwhelming thoughts, weakening faith,... and hiding wisdom. Fear tells you that the worst will happen and you are not strong enough to withstand it. Fear takes your focus off of God and turns it toward circumstances. Fear is a deceptive emotion, claiming to have knowledge of tomorrow.
Fear robs you of the ability to find peace. It steals your objectivity, and darkens your outlook; eclipsing hope on the horizon. Fear is an encompassing emotion, overwhelming thoughts, weakening faith,... and hiding wisdom. Fear tells you that the worst will happen and you are not strong enough to withstand it. Fear takes your focus off of God and turns it toward circumstances. Fear is a deceptive emotion, claiming to have knowledge of tomorrow.
Fear vs. Fact - it is the singular most important choice that we make when situations arise that produce fear.
Fear tells us what might come. Fact tells us what IS. Fear looks down. Fact looks straight ahead. Add Faith into the equation - Faith looks up. Faith shifts your focus above circumstances.
Fear looms over us. Fact stands beside us. Faith lifts us up.
What do you fear/dread? Look at what you SEE, not at what might come. If you don't yet have knowledge/outcome/answers, then that is not what you SEE. What you see is possibilities that are not yet realities. Remove your gaze from those and look through eyes of Faith. What does God say? If He isn't speaking yet, remember what He HAS said.
Trust that He has said He will never leave or forsake you. Trust that He has said He makes all things work together for the good. Trust that He has said that His Ways are perfect. Trust that He has said that He has Plans for you and will not harm you. Trust that He has said He will uphold you with His Righteous Right Hand - the very Hand where you are engraved. (Who tattoos their palm? God does!)
Being temporal isn't easy. We want answers now, and when we can't see answers, our minds begin to examine possibilities of what MIGHT happen, producing fear or dread, forgetting that tomorrow is visible only to One. Worrying, dreading, fearing will not change an outcome. But it will change you.
So will responding in Faith to the not yet known events of tomorrow. What do you actually see? What does God say?
Faith. Because He loves you. And you never walk alone into tomorrow. Ever.
Fear tells us what might come. Fact tells us what IS. Fear looks down. Fact looks straight ahead. Add Faith into the equation - Faith looks up. Faith shifts your focus above circumstances.
Fear looms over us. Fact stands beside us. Faith lifts us up.
What do you fear/dread? Look at what you SEE, not at what might come. If you don't yet have knowledge/outcome/answers, then that is not what you SEE. What you see is possibilities that are not yet realities. Remove your gaze from those and look through eyes of Faith. What does God say? If He isn't speaking yet, remember what He HAS said.
Trust that He has said He will never leave or forsake you. Trust that He has said He makes all things work together for the good. Trust that He has said that His Ways are perfect. Trust that He has said that He has Plans for you and will not harm you. Trust that He has said He will uphold you with His Righteous Right Hand - the very Hand where you are engraved. (Who tattoos their palm? God does!)
Being temporal isn't easy. We want answers now, and when we can't see answers, our minds begin to examine possibilities of what MIGHT happen, producing fear or dread, forgetting that tomorrow is visible only to One. Worrying, dreading, fearing will not change an outcome. But it will change you.
So will responding in Faith to the not yet known events of tomorrow. What do you actually see? What does God say?
Faith. Because He loves you. And you never walk alone into tomorrow. Ever.
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