Fearless

The earliest memories I have as a child involved fear. It had a stronghold on me for many years--paralyzing my thoughts and actions and keeping me at arms length from those that loved me--especially my God.

Here are some quotes from Max Lucado's newest book, Fearless.

"Fear may fill our world, but it doesn't have to fill our hearts. It will always knock on the door. Just don't invite it in for dinner ... Let's embolden our hearts with a select number of Jesus' "do not fear' statements."

"We can fear less tomorrow than we do today."

"Fear, mismanaged, leads to sin. Sin leads to hiding. Since we've all sinned, we all hide, bot in bushes, but in eighty-hour workweeks, temper tantrums, and religious busyness. We avoid contact with God."

"Parents, we can't protect children from every threat in life, but we can take them to the Source of life. We can entrust our kids to Christ."

Fear doesn't have the same hold over me that it did as a child, teen, young adult, wife and mother of three little ones, then mother of teens--at times it can come blasting back, full force in an avalanche of anxiety, but if I take my eyes off the source of my worry, and put them on the Source of my strength, everything falls into proper perspective. This may well be why Romans 8:28 is my favorite verse in the Bible.