Fear.

fear.

who do you fear?

what do you fear?

• fear is something that I didn’t experience a lot of in my life until recently.

•what will I experience in Lebanon?•there’s a do no travel alert by the US gov, will I be okay?•a man brutally murdered 4 ppl in their own home, am I safe where I live?•what appears to be a complete stranger started stalking a house full of girls, could that happen to me?

these thoughts of anxiety & fear gripped my mind. I tried to fight back, I tried to believe harder. But they were strong, & I was not. They were real life scenarios that happened to other people & I couldn’t disregard them.

I could barely sleep soundly & I could barely walk around my house and the city with any type of peace.

I felt attacked from the enemy & I wasn’t strong enough to defend myself.

But Jesus.

I have a verse hanging in my room & the words of it have become sweeter and sweeter the more I dwell on them. “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.” I love how Jesus takes worst case scenario & shows us how worst case scenario really isn’t what we need to be afraid of. Worse case scenario, I die, or someone kills me & then I die. Reality is someone can kill your body, but that’s it. They can’t touch your soul, they can’t take away Jesus, they can’t take away life with him or heaven with him. He goes on to say “but I will warn you who to fear: fear Him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!” I could spend my life fearing people & the host of things that people could do to me but there is something & someone stronger than this world and all the people who live in it. He tells me not to fear, he tells me he knows the hairs on my head, he tells me I’m more precious than sparrows & even sparrows aren’t forgotten before him.

so in the end, fear Him. He’s the one that has the authority. He’s the one who’s got the whole world in His hands. & I get to call him my Savior.