We all have those fears that we keep locked up tight. Some we entertain from time to time, knowing that the probability of them ever coming true is slim to nothing. There are others that make us uncomfortable, but we know that we could handle it. Then there are those that are so deep that they are nearly forgotten. To even acknowledge their existence would make them real. It is these animals that we dare not entertain lest they grow and not fit back into their prison cells.
Recently, I’ve had to acknowledge the possibility of one of these deep-seated fears. The ripple of its reality has left little untouched within me. And while my faith in God has not wavered, my trust in people has.
In these days of trying to make spiritual sense of my very human predicament I read in My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers:
“Bring all your “arguments and . . . every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” regarding the matter and everything will be come as clear as daylight to you (2 Corinthians 10:5). . . . Even the very smallest thing that we allow in our lives that is not under the control of the Holy Spirit is completely sufficient to account for spiritual confusion and spending all our time thinking about it will still never make it clear. Spiritual confusion can only be conquered through obedience. . . . when our natural power of sight is devoted and submitted in obedience to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the very power by which we perceive God’s will, and our entire life is kept in simplicity.”
So this is my prayer: that my sight will not be through the lens of fear and the source of death, but that it will be through the lens of the Spirit the Creator and Sustainer of all life. For God did not give me a spirit of fear but of love, power and a strong mind. 2 Tim 1:7.
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