As I sit and have my cup of coffee with Jesus, I was thinking about how FEAR oftentimes dominates our lives. It drains us of the energy we need to enjoy this life. It blocks relationships and can even make us ill. FEAR oftentimes keeps us from our relationship with Jesus. If we really believe God’s WORD and we open our hearts to HIM, then we should have nothing to fear.
The OPPOSITE of FEAR is safety and TRUST. Fear is something that we play out in our minds. What we fear is usually not true. When we are living in the past or we are afraid of tomorrow, we can’t live in the PRESENT MOMENT. We cannot live in the present moment and live in fear at the same time. We cannot live in fear and yet TRUST in Jesus at the same time. The DIVINE MERCY teaches us to pray, “Jesus, I trust in YOU.”
So today, on this beautiful morning, with the changing of the seasons, the day of the Lord, let us name our fears and SURRENDER them to the FATHER. Let us make today about living in HIS presence, about worship and adoration, about love and peace! FEAR is another four-letter word we need to remove from our vocabulary.
Have a blessed day. Don’t worry. Be happy!
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Good morning, reading your devotional for the first time. Am I to assume the reason I can live in trust and surrender is because God is all powerful? Life experience and world events would speak to his inability to protect or provide. Do we have an alternative to this narrative story of an omnipotent deity?