Too early to be up but my sleep escapes me. So serene is the morning but my heart is in
a totally conflicting state. So I stare up at the ceiling and my thoughts race back and
forth this all too familiar territory. A chat i am never ready to engage in but that
incessantly keeps pulling me back; like an ill habit it draws me back to its grip but am I
ready to give it audience? Does it have to be now? ‘Certainly not today. A little bit more
time and I will deal with it,’ I whisper to myself and swiftly I shift focus….the easiest way
to put on the back burner anything threatening to smoke me out of my comfort nest. My
tormentors kept at bay momentarily, I start my day, my fears still nagging at the back of
my mind but too afraid to face them, instead I feed them and give them power over my
faith. Another morning, another day gone and my fears still sniggering at me, their
winning streak continues…and the cycle slowly becomes a part of my life. My fears, my
master!
For how long can one give in to their fears? A slave we all are at some point in our lives.
Fear of the unknown, the future, standing out, letting a grand idea see the light of day,
doing right, and being ourselves etc. Our responses
vary, many sweep our fears aside, more put them off to another time, and a few face
them foolhardily but why do we find it hard to follow a course already charted for us
before the beginning of time?
To take our fears to the cross and ask for guidance in all situations?
Christ conquered all things at the cross that we shall be saved. He saved us from our
fears, our worries and anxieties if we trust in God. In the darkest of hours, in the most
conflicting of situations, in the unprecedented ones, even in the light of the best of our
ideas, trusting God in His power, in His infinite wisdom and knowledge, in His utter
strength, in His own timing, all things are made good for His glory.
So let us not gaze at our fears and give them power over our lives, let us not be afraid of
facing a new day, a new challenge, a paradigm shift in our lives but instead let us wholly
trust God for His unwavering love and faithfulness!
I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. (Psalm 34:4)
1The Lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of
my life– of whom shall be afraid?
Psalm 27
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