Sunday, March 23, 2025
“Eliminate One Fear”
As we begin another week during Lent, we address something that everyone faces: Fear.
What do we fear? The dark? A certain person? A situation that we are involved in? A place that haunts us?
Everyone fears something. Some of us battle fear daily while others of us are able to stash it for a while. What we don’t realize is how much that fear controls our lives. Sure, the more serious the situation might be, the greater the impact on us. But no matter where we are or whom we are thinking about, God is already involved in that situation.
Sometimes we use God as a crutch in these instances, leaning on the LORD and even calling upon the LORD to help us overcome the fear. However, most of the time we are probably calling upon God to temporarily help us when we should be seeking the LORD to eliminate it completely. Oh, sure, we might be calling upon the LORD to fix something completely. However, if we don’t do our part by becoming vulnerable to the LORD’s work, we might just be using a bandage on the problem.
We shouldn’t be satisfied with the temporary fix. We should always be seeking the permanent fix of the fears that control us. When we are faithful, God answers and provides. Fear does not need to control us any longer, but we must do our part.
This Lenten Challenge is a great opportunity to address something that we’ve avoided for much too long. What is it that we fear? Can we give it to the LORD today, permanently? Yes, we can!
“For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.” (2 Timothy 1:7, NET)
