fear
This year i have done some stuff that i found really hard. for some of it i was scared of what the outcome would be (and some had the undesired result).
fear was one of the reasons that it took me a long time to make the decision to act. once i relised this and made a decision to step upto the plate i was able to take control of the fear, and not be controlled by it.
in some things we do, we start afraid. some things we do and we are scarred all the way thru, but this shouldn't stop us from doing them. fear can control us, but we can make a decision to not let it take control of us. do it anyway.
once i had acted even though i was fearful of the result and what could happen, i was glad i did. it didn't matter what had happened.
By letting fear contain me, it not only limits me- it could very well hurt others.
Holly Wagner
fear was one of the reasons that it took me a long time to make the decision to act. once i relised this and made a decision to step upto the plate i was able to take control of the fear, and not be controlled by it.
in some things we do, we start afraid. some things we do and we are scarred all the way thru, but this shouldn't stop us from doing them. fear can control us, but we can make a decision to not let it take control of us. do it anyway.
once i had acted even though i was fearful of the result and what could happen, i was glad i did. it didn't matter what had happened.
By letting fear contain me, it not only limits me- it could very well hurt others.
Holly Wagner
posted by Cara at
1:07 AM
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"And these scars remind me who I am" - "This Is It" by Jonah33
Being scarred isn't necessarily a bad thing, it helps to remind us who we are, what we've done. Through these scars we can teach others not to make the descisions we made.
What is bad however, is to let fear control your descisions, your life. It can inhibit you.
Not letting fear restrict you is a good move, but identifying that fear can sometimes be difficult.
I guess that the identification isn't all that important, so longs as you take the first step and try and work through it until the end, eventually eliminating your fear by facing it.
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switch, at 2:01 AM
Here's a thought:
The question of fear is really a question of misplaced trust. When all we have to trust in is ourselves (our own abilities, our own ideas, our own endurance, etc) or others, then of course we're going to fear when it comes to the big (or not so big) stuff. God designed our hearts and bodies to fear as a mechanism of self-preservation - to protect our health physically and otherwise. Fear (should) keep us from doing stupid things, like driving too fast or taking too much on or putting live tarantulas into our mouths.
When we are fallen, our fear (like everything else) becomes misused. We fear (don't have our trust in the right sources) when faced with anything remotely outside our comfort zone. I would suggest that someone who is fully dependent on God, ie. they trust God with their entire life, would experience fear only at the life-protecting level. They would not fear things they are supposed to do because they would be in complete trust in God and that He would enable them. Ironically however, since we are all human, I don't think it's possible to achieve this level of all-encompassing trust this side of Heaven... but we can still try! ;-)
So in practical terms, the issue seems to me to be not so much "I don't have to fear, because God's with me, so bring it on!" but rather "Is this something I need to fear or not?" Some things are worth fearing, because they are genuinely bad for us. Others are a fallen perspective, and like you guys said, we don't want them dictating our lives.
And on another note, like all sin in the world, God grows us and reveals himself through it all anyway.
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Steff, at 7:50 PM
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