{"id":1175,"date":"2019-10-26T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2019-10-12T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T13:22:11","slug":"right-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/26\/right-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"RIGHT FEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI say to you, my friends, don\u2019t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.\u201d  Luke 12:4 CSB<\/a>
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Jesus is speaking to a crowd of thousands when we find the passage above.  He\u2019s already warned them to beware of religious hypocrites (Luke 12:1-3 CSB<\/a>).  Now He is telling them, and us, not to fear people.  People can only harm you to a certain extent. Jesus is telling us who we should really fear. \u201cFear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death.  Yes, I say to you, this is the one to fear\u201d (Luke 12:5 CSB<\/a>).  The verses that follow exemplify how much God loves us. \u201cAren\u2019t five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God\u2019s sight.  Indeed the hairs of your head are all counted. Don\u2019t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows\u201d (Luke 12:6-7 CSB<\/a>).
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As we have progressed through this month of fear, God keeps leading us back to the same place, Him.  There is only one fear we are to have, and that is fear of Him. We have to have ultimate respect for the One who is truly in control of all, God.  But yet we don\u2019t. Yesterday I was texting with friends, getting ready for the retreat. I\u2019m planning on using a trust exercise during my talk. One of my friends responded back, \u201cI have trust issues.\u201d  Without thinking I replied back, \u201cWe all do because we humanize God.\u201d I had never thought of this before, but after I sent it, I pondered on it\u2019s truth. I thought of how I humanize God. Because I think of Him as male, and because I have trust issues with men, I sometimes have problems trusting God completely.  Even as far as I have come, I still have so far to go. What human characteristics do you put on God? What trust issues are you projecting on God that He doesn\u2019t deserve? It\u2019s worth time thinking about these things to help you move past them and trust God completely.
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Trusting God completely will allow you to have the reverential awe for Him that He deserves.\u00a0 Trust will help you put Him first over people, because He will never let you down. He will never break your trust.\u00a0 He will always fight for you, not against you. Whatever your fears are, He is the key to overcoming them. Having a healthy fear of God, according to Jesus, is the only fear we should have.\u00a0 But first we have to put God first in all things, over all people, trusting His way, even though it\u2019s different from ours. Trusting His ways, not ours, is the way to overcome all other fears.
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\u201cI say to you, my friends, don\u2019t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.\u201d  Luke 12:4 CSB Jesus is speaking to a crowd of thousands when we find the passage above.  He\u2019s already warned them to beware of religious hypocrites (Luke 12:1-3 CSB).  Now He is telling them, and… Continue reading RIGHT FEAR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}