2 Timothy 1:7 “For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear.”
My book ‘Dangerously Alive’ starts as follows:
“I sped around the bend in the road on my motorbike, but quickly scrambled to a stop, surprised to see a figure in the middle of the road, just ahead of me. He was holding a grenade in his hand, ready to blow me up. I knew this for a fact – he had made his intentions clear two days before when he’d written saying he was going to cut out my eyes. My guard waved at me – a pre-arranged sign not to approach. This was both surreal and yet chillingly real. “God, what on earth shall I do? If it has to be, I’m ready to die. Let’s go…”
Most people don’t live in such extreme circumstances. Interestingly, the question I am most commonly asked is: aren’t you frightened for your kids’ safety in such an unstable country like Burundi? But let me ask you this: don’t you realize you’re in a war zone too? Ostensibly it’s very different, but if you scratch beneath the surface you will find that the grenades of apathy, materialism and relativism are far more dangerous where you are. And maybe you and your family are casualties of that war. Watch out! Wake up! There’s no need to fear, but you do need to live by faith!
If we’re completely honest, when we analyse the root motivation behind most of our significant decision-making in life, it’s grounded in fear. We choose to do x so that y doesn’t happen. We have fears regarding the future, finances, health issues, family breakdown, death. So we take out a second mortgage in the house of fear. Listen: the bottom line is that we are all called to live by faith, not by fear.
Bring God your fears right now. Trust him. He can handle them.
Father God, today with your help I choose to reject fear and live by faith. Amen!
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