I'd be lying if I said I was fearless. Truth is fear is a regular part of my life. You could call that weak or you could call that strong. You'd be wrong though if you said that fear is weakness. Everyone of us faces fearful moments. Every hero of the Bible did. What made them brave men and women was not their lack of fear. It was what they did with that fear. For a moment surrender your movie fantasy picture of bravery and consider this.
Fear is an emotion that grips us all. What causes some to be crippled by it and other to be moved by it found in 1 Peter 1:13. "Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be self-controled, set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed." Fear begins in the mind and then captures the heart. There is a battle raging for the hearts and minds of God's people. Those that are crippled by it allow the battle raging in their mind to make it to their heart before they intercept it with God's truth. The truth is found also in 1 Peter 1:13. It is in the fraze, "set your hope fully on the grace to be given you."
The brave catch the fear while it still exists in their minds and inject faith. Faith is believing that the hope we have is in the grace to be given when we choose to walk in that faith. In each moment grace is waiting to be released to us by a loving God as we choose obedience. When grace enters, it replaces fear with passion. It is the hope as you see God's power released as you fully pursue him and his will. And that grace is free upon our willingness to choose it and walk into it. Walking into grace is walking into the fear. Fear is not removed before we choose but as we choose. Passion is not released before we choose but as we choose!
When your willing to walk into your fear you discover a God there waiting for you. Then when your fear comes face to face with his grace you discover gifts you didn't know you had, strengths that are now released, and a calling that gives you life. There is the passion. There is the hope. Are you willing to walk into it?
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