so last night we performed the Fear drama we have been working on, and the team did a great job. and Joe did an awesome job of explaining it afterwards. so good. God does amazing things...:) so thank you to the team for so much hard work and for letting God use you!
one thing i was thinking about...i know i have been writing on here about fear having the gun pointed at our faces, just keeping us from moving or stepping forward and living out the life God calls us to...and how fear only has power over us if we give it that power.
and think about this for a second...so say someone is standing in front of you - someone real intimidating...like you know they want nothing good for your life. and they have a gun..pointed at you. what is your heart doing at this point? what is running through your head? i have never actually experienced this but i have felt fear...so that is what i picture - x like a thousand. haha but i imagine i would be freaking out a little bit...?
anyways...thinking about that moment. and then imagine that that person goes to pull the trigger to that gun. (freaking out more...) but then nothing happens. and instead of just being relieved and running the opposite direction...you reach into your pocket and take out some bullets and hand them over.
he then proceeds to load the gun and point it back at your face.
that sounds so crazy!
but its what we do!!! fear has no power. God conquered it. He took it away. He said i wont kill it for good just yet, but i will hold it back. its up to you to run as fast as you possibly can to get out of his reach...
so why do we still fear? why do we hold back? because we GIVE fear what it needs to kill us. We just hand it over and wait patiently while it prepares to take us down!
Jesus DIED so we could be free of that! and its just hitting me anew how much we need to make that worth it. yes, we get tired. yes, its hard. yes, its even scary or painful or crazy...
but its not like Jesus sat in a pile of pillows to save our lives, either. He suffered. He asked for another way - but there wasnt one. so He accepted that cup from His father and He went to the cross. and i have known this, obviously - but while im learning self-discipline and faithfulness...im realizing that me giving into "what i want", the things that keep me from saying yes to GOD...is so much bigger than me just not doing what i should.
so much else is at stake.
my prayer now for my life and for you who are reading this is that we will realize that what we do either moves us toward God or toward Satan. Jesus died so we could have that moment to get away...i pray that we can make what Jesus went through worth it and not just stand there, hand over the bullets and wait for the attack. FIGHT BACK.
ask God how to get rid of the bullets youre hanging onto so that you CANT give fear that power again, even in our weakest moments.
but stop giving in to the one that lives to hurt you, and start putting ALL your energy into running towards the one who died to save you.
theres a line in a song im listening to now. not sure who its by but im going to write the line here...
“Write it on my tombstone – yeah, man
“that one never quit it”.
And since I don’t lack anything at all- everything I do,
I be givin it my all –
so when I say im on fire for you,
I mean it, my love – im blazin hot for you!”
love it. in James 1 - God says that we need to have our faith tested so that we can be refined and get to a point where we "are not lacking in anything". amazing. and if we are not lacking in anything...then we have more for God to use in us to further His kingdom.
and if we never quit...if we never give up on Him - there is no telling what He will do.
so fight. stand for what you know. and do NOT let fear hold you back from what God is calling you to.
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