Have you ever noticed what a bully fear is? It keeps me from stepping out in faith and trying something new. It makes me doubt my experience and abilities. It reminds me that “I’m not good enough” and never will be. It keeps my focus on the past and not the present, much less looking with hope toward the future. It make me doubt my ability to learn, grow and improve. It makes me hesitant to take a risk because I might fail and look really stupid. An unhealthy fear makes me doubt God.
Fear keeps the focus on me, not God. Seeing fear at work in a loved one is painful. The encouraging words I try to speak are not heard, they are drowned out by fear.
So how can I combat that bully fear? Beat down with the truth from God’s word. Truth about who God is and what He has promised in the Bible. Truth about who I am in Christ.
Defeating a bully make take time. Defeating fear is worth all the hard work and effort.
The fear that we should retain is a holy reverence and fear of God. That is a wise and prudent fear I want to retain.
What would life without being bullied by fear look like?
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I love the visual of beating down the bully of fear with the word of God. The prospect of a life free of fear’s bullying is worship inducing, all the more because it becomes increasingly attainable as our trust in our Father increases. He does tell us over and over to not fear and the primary reason is that He is with us.
Amen and amen. You are so right about being able to attain a life free of free because of our Father’s presence with us all the time. He is good all the time and praise God He is unchanging. For our Father who is perfect has no need to change.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. I took a look at your blog As One Being Taught…I will have to take a closer look. I think I will be challenged, encouraged and convicted. Keep sharing the Word of God and what you are learning.
Blessings in Christ…Susan
Thanks for your encouraging words, Susan. Blessings. E