Facing Our Fears

The face of fear varies from person to person. 

For one it's spiders, for others it's being alone.

Take a moment. 

What do you fear?

How long have you allowed that fear to keep you from acting?

For many, the incapacitating potential of what could happen    

is enough to freeze us in our tracks.

Sometimes fear protects us.

Other times it prevents us.

The challenge is to distinguish between those two.

2 questions to consider:

1. Does my fear protect me from pain?

Or...

2. Does it prevent me from really living?

Even though most of the things we fear never happen,

their paralyzing power is undeniable.

That little voice in our head is persistent, isn't it?

So what do we do?

Take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5

How do we silence it?

We can't stop the voices from speaking, but we can determine who we listen to.

While it's good to look to others, don't wait for them.

They may never jump.

"Courage is not the absence of fear;

It's moving forward even while your knees are shaking."

Abraham Lincoln

Let's jump on three: 1, 2, 3.