Are You Living in Fear?

I don't find it ironic that "Fear" is mentioned 365 times in scripture. I believe that God knew that it would be in our very nature to "fear" so he re-iterated time and time again "to not be afraid-to not fear." So much of our life are new experiences from day to day. It's easy to look ahead and have fear over the unknown. But I find that through scripture I can find peace in whatever this world is throwing at me. Peace in place of fear! I remember at the beginning of my illness I lived with a great deal of fear....fear of not knowing whether all that I was losing would ever come back but as time has drawn on and I've battled this obstacle in life I have learned that this too will pass and though the days may have setbacks or bad days that there is always hope in tomorrow.

On another note I have been wandering alot lately about those that are unsaved and have no faith or no beliefs. I wander if "fear" is what keeps them from surrendering to God's calling and laying down their "fear" of losing control over their life and letting God be in control for awhile. I guess I hadn't thought of this before....but none of us want our lives to be out of our control but yet as a Christ-follower we honestly are not the ones in control of our lives. We have surrendered that to God, we've trusted that He knows better than I what is good for my life and He will allow some hard days and some hard years so that I don't forget that he is the one in control and I.....well I'm supposed to just sit back and listen to his guidance and be obedient to what He is asking me to do. Fear sometimes obscures our vision, it obscures our total reliance on God not on our own mortal selves. So I am going to focus this next year on not living in fear of what God is allowing or doing in my life and learn to embrace it for what it is.