A person told me, they remember being a child and when they got in trouble their mother would tell them in a firm tone, “When I get home I am going to whip you.” The person said the whole day would go by and the action of him getting disciplined would be on his mind all day long. He would walk around in fear thinking, “When is she going to whip me, how is she going to whip me.”
Perhaps, he even functioned a bit slower because of thinking of being disciplined. He expressed how he was in fear all day and the moment he thought, “Well I made it through the day, now I can go take a bath.” Within three minutes in crept his mother to whip his behind.
When we hear negative things we meditate on it. The negative thoughts consume us, we move slowly and eventually get paralyzed.
Fear is polluted faith. It is cluttered with negative words to get you to believe you are not able to accomplish something that you are capable of doing. Like faith, fear comes by hearing. “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ,” (Rom 10:17).
In the story of Batman, Bruce Wayne was initially afraid of bats. As he grew he used the very thing he was afraid of to help encourage him to save the city of Gotham.
It is those things we fear we need not to be afraid of to fulfill our appointed task in life. What is your fear? Do you continue to tell yourself you can’t do something based on needing validation? How must man give validation towards your task in life, when man didn’t appoint the very task? Seek God for validation so you may not be fearful of your task. “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you,” (Matt 6:33).
Don’t allow fear to run you, run your fears. Allow God to use your fear to conquer your task. Pray to God to give you wisdom to accomplish your tasks through out your life. Call upon the Lord to send others to encourage you along the way (1 Thess 5:11). Pray that you have pure faith not polluted faith. You are God’s child and He did not give you the spirit of fear.
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