Fearless living

What would it look like if we didn't fear. At all. Ever. Of people, safe or unsafe- in all senses of the words, of circumstances and accidents....Of life, of good,things happening and the simple fact that God is in a good mood. All the time. He loves us. Has the best for us. Wants RELATIONSHIP with us... I was reading a mission statement today that was from another faith, but had clearly been 'borrowed' from Christianity. It was such a strange thing, because it was so very similar, and I knew where it had come from and was trying to achieve, and yet..... It was so very lacking in what we take for granted. There was absolutely no relationship with God- whoever they believe God to be. In reading through it, there was worship, a god, law, obligation, rites, but it was so empty. Fear.

One of the things that I was so struck by at the Good Friday service recently was the fear felt at different points. Of Judas and his actions, Peter denying that he knew Jesus, of the guards mocking someone and circumstances they didn't understand, of Pilate and Herod choosing what the crowd wanted rather than what they too knew to be right...the list goes on. But. Following the resurrection, the reconnection, finally knowing through and through, of understanding through and through who. Jesus. Is...they no longer acted in fear, and so often, they went to their death, because they were so fearless, they knew who they were, knew whose they were, through and through.

So, I have been thinking more this week about those things I am afraid of, and working out how to navigate them in a new way, because, I don't like myself when I act from a place of fear, quite honestly. So often it is relationship that is the instigator, and this time is no different. I have gone through big change, and forgot that relationships might change as a result. Fine when things have been enriched, but not so when things feel like they are slipping away... I want to respond. Out of fear and hurt, and that's not great. 

So, this week has been spent, thinking about living in the resurrection, as though it's all going to be fine, that it's Jesus whose promises I am trusting, and living in, and will endeavour to be faithful with the rest, and trust that God will fill in the gaps, holes, places where there could be hurts and fears, but look expect Gods promises to be released. As long as it is today, God is good, and he is faithful:)

It means fearless loving too.... A scary, awesome feat it would be, indeed!!