Fear

Here is just a little snibbit of part of the book i'm writing called Crazy Beautiful. Hence the name of the blog...

I didn’t realize, until recently, that the world is constantly telling us to do one thing over another. It’s everywhere. Almost every place I turn, I see how the world wants me to live and operate. How could I be blind to it? It’s been happening ever since I came into this earth. It’s the norm. It’s an every day occurrence. And yet, we are called to a higher standard than the world sets for us. Christ calls us to be set apart from the world. To be in it, but not of it. Impossible? No. Difficult? Most definitely.
We want to be accepted in this world. We want to be seen and be set apart. But we also want people to think we are beautiful and worth something.

Over and over God tells us not to fear. And yet, fear seems to be an almost daily occurrence for us, women. Whether it is fear of man, fear of self, or any number of other fears; fears are interwoven into society. Especially if we feel like we don’t measure up. Like when you don’t get into the school of your choice, or when you didn’t get the internship that you thought was yours. All the days that we walk with Jesus, he will wash away our fears if we ask. Yet, most of the time, we forget, because we don’t see it as fear, we see it about caring about what we say, how we dress, what we look like, and we don’t realize that the root of it, is fear.
If we let it, fear will determine how we act. I can name so many women that I know who let fear determine how they act. What gets me is the fact that they don’t even probably realize it. You know what though, most likely, I do the same thing. But I’m trying to make a change because God didn’t intend for us to live in fear. It’s not his good and perfect will for us. Yeah, it might be hard to do it fully, because we’re human. But I know that if God intended for us to live in fear he would’ve told us. God has created us to only fear him. A couple weeks ago I was talking with a friend, and we were talking about how much we want to have one fear, and that is of the Lord. We want every other thing that holds us back that is fear related to be gone.
Now, everyone has fears. You can have legitimate fears. There is always a reason behind the fear what we have. But God can bring healing.
The truth is, if you aren’t someone who has a fear of what people think of you and you start hanging out with people who do you WILL become like them. I know, I’ve been there. Our fear will always be there, if we let it.
Confidence means “with faith.” As Christians this means that we are going with faith in Christ. Every day God gives us new mercies. That fear that we hold onto can be taken away when we wake. Will you let it?