dictionary termed fear: emotion stimulated through threat, extreme discomfort, unsafe feelings.
biblical termed fear: an unworthiness, knowledge of the holy, an extreme adoration, instant humility, awe inspired static.
an awe inspired static.
this term, i guess, created by me is something I never stopped to think about until I entered my house alone tonight.
I sit on couch with laptop in hand full of anxious thoughts and fleshly fears as I sit in this wooden floor cottage.
I am so full of my flesh that it wounds my soul. When I am alone, my flesh presses hard and Satan comes to attack even harder. I can feel it even before I enter a place alone, I can feel the overwhelming force of temptation push against me before I seclude myself into an empty yet surrounded and filled house. I have not done anything to be ashamed of tonight, not even spoken a word against someone in my mind. But I fear myself in my aloneness. Little I thought of the power inside that God has given to me.
My fleshly temptations are endless and powerful against me. But oh it is good to know that he is better, stronger, and so powerful that the fear that stimulates through emotion can quickly be eased when we lift our hands in submission and adoration at this life we are living. Tonight, I had to lift my hands in a literal sense and speak his power. Over me and over the space surrounding me. Not only did I feel it, but an immediate peace came over me.
Genesis 3:10 "I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked,so i hid"
is a perfect example of our flesh being exposed and our natural tendencies during those patterns. We not only run to hide in our sin, but we run because we are afraid and do not know where to turn. How beautiful if we step out of our tendency, stand before God and thank him that in our weakness, he is stronger.
under constant mercy in him.
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