Tuesday, April 15, 2008

"Where O Death is your victory, Where O Death is your sting?"

Fear is a complex power. It takes people ransom with its ability to hush and disguise the enemy. It guilts the soul into denying it's salvation and rips the blessing of fellowship into unrecognizable threads. It works it's subjects into a trance of conviction. It's so obviously devious and yet it sneaks into our hearts causing symptoms like doubt and anger to arise without explanation, and at it's very worst completely steals it's victims identity. Ultimately, if given into long enough, fear is death.

However.

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." Romans 8:15

The inheritance of power and love we recieve through our Holy Father grants us a new and everlasting identity. One free of all that is evil and consuming. No longer must we hide or seek shameful ways of covering that from which all suffer. For
^"10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."John 10:10 There is no death for those in Christ Jesus. Only the promise of a burning more fulfilling and passionate life of surrender and joy.

Missy.
O LORD, you have searched her and you know her. You know when she sits and when she rises; you perceive her thoughts from afar. You discern her going out and her lying down; you are familiar with all her ways. Before a word is on her tongue you know it completely, O LORD. You hem her in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon her. Psalm 139:1-5

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