God is bigger than fear – Roberta Writes

Do nothing

The hardest thing to do is nothing.

I look around me and see strife and trouble, but nothing I offer will answer. I feel helpless and angry. I see families fighting over unseen threats. I see people clinging to ideas with a vigour that puts virtue above love. I see hurt. I see frustration.

I spend so much time trying to think of what I can write that will answer this problem. I strain my mind to think of a way to help. But I have nothing. I am truly powerless. I can’t change anyone’s perspective. I can’t make people see how they are behaving. I have nothing to offer.

So I do nothing.

As I sit. Empty. Quiet. Still.

God answers my heart, “Trust me, I am.”

This is His fight. This is His battle.

I am like an injured bird, the more I struggle the more I hurt myself. If I submit and calm my soul he can heal my wounds.

Let’s try being quiet. Quiet before God.

2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my
power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake,
I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.

The old passes

We see it everywhere, it’s all around us and it’s so ever present that we expect it. We never doubt that it will happen. The seasons; they come like clock work every year. They vary in their expression but the change is inevitable. As a Canadian I often vainly hope that this is the year that winter won’t arrive, but it always does. If we’re lucky it’s mild and short-lived, but come it does.

As I clear away the dead from the winter, I discover the new growth underneath. Brave little starts pushing their way through the dirt. The difficulty of shedding the old and starting the new. All things must pass. Everything will die. But new growth comes, as sure as the seasons.

I believe deeply we as a culture are in a transition between the passing of winter and the burgeoning of spring. The dead needs to be shed and the new growth encouraged and safeguarded. Believe in new beginnings and nurture all that is good.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:
The old has gone, the new is here!

Fight fear

Fear. It’s black and dark. It can swallow you whole. Once it gets a grip of your heart it will squeeze and squish the hope from your life.

What can we do?

We fight! We kick and scream and push it back.

We read the Word. We allow God to build in us the resistance we need to fend it off.

We put on the armor of God. We go into battle against fear.

In the morning when we wake up we decide; today God is bigger than my fear.

Psalm 34: 4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.