Self and fear

• 2 Pet. 3:18, “But grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and for ever. Amen.”
• Phil. 3:12, “I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.”
• 1 Cor. 3:6, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.”

Today, I was walking into HEB and I felt a little anxious about some things going on in my personal life. Overall, small things, but the feeling of anxiousness is a pain sometimes. And then this thought of light came to mind, “Self brings fear and fear brings self.”

• 1 John 4:18, “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
• 1 Cor. 13:12, “Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
• Heb. 10:1, “The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming–not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.”
• Col. 2:2, “being knit together in love, and [attaining] to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ..”
• 2 Cor. 10:5, “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

I saw that fear brings out self and in the old self apart from Christ there is the absence of Love. I am still chewing on this, but am seeing that vain imaginations and feelings predicate on the old man and fear. If the expectation is fear-bent then it will bring more fear which is rooted in self that does not know God through His only Son Jesus. When this light came I saw 1 Cor. 13:12 and Heb. 10:1. He is reality, the image of the invisible God. Thank You Lord for Your word! Thank You. And now, we as ambassadors for Christ are growing into His image. We are flesh becoming logos or word through His quickened-life word renewing in us even daily whether we are aware of it or not. It is His growth in us, Phil. 1:6, 2 Pet. 3:18, Eph. 4:13.

• Col. 3:9, “Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new [man] who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him..”

I also saw that vain imaginations of self-resentment are just that. They are empty, futile and without purpose. He circumcises the heart not with human hands, but by the SPIRIT of the LIVING GOD. I am also seeing that Jesus NEVER stops pursuing those He loves. It is not in His nature to do so. Love never stops loving, 1 Cor. 13:8, 2 Tim. 2:13.

• 2 Cor. 12:1, “I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.”

He is the Lamb that was crucified before the foundations of the earth. Even when I give up on myself, consider it or it feels like it, it doesn’t matter because He does not change. His will, love, hope, grace and truth are always constant. Revelation will come by grace. His Body will grow unto the full stature by Him who causes it to increase. When truth is revealed it coalesces with other truth and grows into reality and liberty. I believe this is the Hope of glory in us, Christ. He is more real than the air I breathe or blood I bleed.

• Acts 17:28, “‘For in him we live and move and have our being.”

I am seeing more and more this verse clearer,

• Heb. 8:10, “I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

It is a heart to heart relationship. Always has been and always will be into eternity. I believe God desires to have us spend eternity getting to know Him. That was the Garden and Heb. 8:10.