Where did fear come from? Where does it find it's beginning?
"But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself."(Gen.3:9-10/ESV)
By the first man came sin, and by it, FEAR!! Ever since, man has cowered when confronted with the Holy prescence of God. We feel our unworthiness and our deserved condemnation!
I recall Peter's words on the Sea of Galilee after Jesus provides a miraculous catch of fish, "depart from me, for I am a sinful man."
We are undone in His prescence, just as Isaiah was in Isaiah 6.
Our live's are dominated by the fear of His justice and wrath!
But, there is a "second Adam", the last man from heaven, who has come to free us from this lifelong bondage to fear and death!
In 1 John 4:18 it says, "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love."(ESV)
Amazing! The first man plunged the whole human race into a life of fear and bondage, whereas the last man, set us free to have life and to have it more abundantly in love. We no longer have to live in fear, but by the Spirit, as we cry out Abba Father!
Oh, what a Redeemer and Friend!!
Your thoughts and comments please!
2 comments:
Your post reminded me of these verses:
Isa 6:5-8 MKJV
(5) Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.
(6) Then one of the seraphs flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, snatched with tongs from the altar.
(7) And he laid it on my mouth and said, Lo, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.
(8) And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me!
also:
Isa 26:3-5 MKJV
(3) You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You; because he trusts in You.
(4) Trust in Jehovah forever; for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
(5) For He brings down those who dwell on high; He lays low the lofty city; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it to the dust.
verse 8 then speaks of waiting for God in the path of His judgment. There is no fear there for those who have been made righteous!
Craig
P.S.
Never thought about the origin of fear. Very good point you make brother
Thanks Craig, The gospel is truly the declaration of our being set free from condemnation and fear!!
A fear that can be aleviated no other way!
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