Last night I was talking with one of my swazi teammates and can i just first say that I absolutely LOVE talking with each of them and so look forward to finally uniting with them in person come June 22. I can't wait.
Anyway, so we were talking about fear. Fear in going to Swazi, etc. Isn't it crazy though haha what are we getting ourselves into and I can't believe I'm really doing this. But this journey is so exciting and with that comes much fear and anxiety. That's exactly what Satan wants too...he wants the fear to paralyze us. Instead of letting fear paralyze us I pray that it compels us and allow the perfect love of Jesus to drive it out. In 1 john it says that perfect love drives out all fear. Therefore, I have nothing to fear. God is love. His love is bigger and greater than all my fear. I pray that instead of giving Satan a foothold with our fears and anxieties that we would bring that before the throne of grace and allow the love of God to penetrate it and use it for His glory and to prepare us even more for what's ahead.
One man always says that Fear can be a good thing because in our fear we have two options...either let it control us andplace whatever it is we fear above God OR we can allow the Holy Spirit to rise above and move in that fear. I think those are the best places to be even though we don't like not being in control. But when the fear comes to just release it and allow Love to rise above, allow Holy Spirit to take the wheel from there ya know? I have no idea if that made sense, but it did in my head so if you don't get it, I'll try to explain again in bettter terms.
Well thats all for now. Time to head out to school.
Keep praying for myself and my 7 other teammates.
Love,
LB Harbin
I'm so thankful that Jesus never lets go of my hand even in my moments of fear, anxiety and uncertainty.
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