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Friday... So what is it that you really fear?


1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT), "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ."

Friday... So what is it that you really fear?

Yes, fear holds us back. It seems to take hold of us so that we can't even really enjoy living. Now I have found that one of the best ways to handle fear is to solve the problem of what we fear.

Let's say that death is what we really fear. Everyday we wake up afraid to get up because we are afraid to do anything because we are afraid to die. And that is so understandable.

Now I have found the solution to fearing death. I have through faith taken care of my fear to die. 1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT) says, "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ."

Verse 22 (CEV) says, "Adam brought death to all of us, and Christ will bring life to all of us." Death was not God's plan. Adam was created for an eternal life but he and his partner, Eve blew it and sin and death then entered into the world so God came up with a new plan. "Christ will bring life to all."


Verses 3b-4 says, "Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say, he was buried, and three days later he was raised to life, as the Scriptures say." That is a great start.

Verses 17-19 explains, "Unless Christ was raised to life, your faith is useless, and you are still living in your sins. And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost. If our hope in Christ is good only for this life, we are worse than anyone else."

Yes, we have it good in this life if we put our faith in Christ but it is useless for taking care of death if we don't believe that Christ was raised to life. Yes, we "are completely lost."

Let's go on, verses 25-26 (NLT) says, "For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. And the last enemy to be destroyed is death."

Now verse 51 says, "But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will be transformed." Verse 53, "For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies."

John 3:16-17 says, "For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him."

Now I have believed in him and confessed my sins and God has saved me and will save me from what I have feared. God has taken care of what I have feared. "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." And he will do the same for you. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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