I want to share Andrew Womack's devotional for today!
LOVE CONQUERS FEAR
John 9:27 "He answered them,
I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again?
will ye also be his disciples?"
JOHN 9:6-27
This man showed great courage in
confronting these religious leaders. Even Peter later backed down for fear of
this same group of men (Luke 22:54-62). Certainly one thing that gave him this
boldness was that he knew what Jesus had done for him. And even beyond the
physical healing, he knew that Jesus had healed him because He loved him. It's
our security in the Lord's love for us that gives us the strength to face
rejection from others. As Proverbs 28:1 puts it, "the righteous are bold
as a lion." The antidote for fear of men is a large dose of the love of
God.
One of the greatest truths of the
Bible and one of the hardest to comprehend, is that we are the objects of God's
love. God didn't just pity us or feel some sense of moral obligation to save
us. He saved us because of His infinite love for us (John 3:16). An experiential
understanding of God's love is the key to being filled with all the fullness of
God (Ephesians 3:19).
Paul prays in Ephesians 3:19,
that we would experience the love of God which passes mere knowledge about it.
How can we know the love of God if it passes knowledge? This sounds like a
contradiction. It's not. The knowing is experiencing it. The end result of
having understanding and experiential knowledge of God's love is that we will
be filled with all the fullness of God. God's love is the key that opens the
door to everything that God is. God is love (1 John 4:8).
It's not just a casual
acquaintance with God's love that we need, but an intimate understanding and
experiential knowledge of the depths of God's love. Just as a tree's roots
provide stability and nourishment for the tree, so our revelation of God's love
is the foundation upon which everything else we receive from God is built.
NEVER give in to fear! It is a spirit, and YOU have been delivered from all fear! Here is Hillsong with "Not Today!":
Shalom in Him!
