My FAITH IS
BIGGER Than My Fear
25 August
2020
By: Jun
In My Solitude
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I
Are you in Pain? Are you living in Fear? Are you anxious to
the brink of feeling insane?
It is
normal... It is human to feel these
things... But the question is, my friend --
For
how long will you live in fear? For how
long shall you feel pain?
Maybe it is
high time that you lift your hands and just
let your knees bend?
II
Life is uncertain, in these trying times where news of fear
linger and spread,
It seems
that most people resort to
actions they tend to regret out of fear;
In times of
darkness, let a spark of HOPE be the light
to guide us in good stead,
In moments of
challenges and difficulties, let our FAITH be our
beacon and our gear.
III
Let
us cry out to the Lord and shout our heartaches and sadness,
For in acceptance that we alone cannot carry all of these
deadweight burden;
Remember, that whenever we traverse the road of
hardship and sickness,
The footprints in the sand are Jesus' that marks for He
carries us all who are broken.
IV
Whenever we pray that the Lord may grant us whatever it is we
desire,
Do we really think that it will be given just like that with a
click of a finger?
Rarely the Lord answers outright, He often gives us signs or else we need to
enquire --
Is
this Your will O Lord? Or is it an
opportunity for our faith to somehow linger.
V
Our
faith is Bigger than our Fear, or so we want to believe,
But when trials and troubles set in, is it really what we feel?
Some believe we only live once, so we have to live it without making heave,
Isn't it such a selfish point of view? Rather we must live our lives according to
His will.
Vi
Fear is
something that is tangible, it eats us
up whenever things don't happen the way we expect them to be,
What we really need are positive attributes that are intangible,
like COURAGE and PATIENCE;
When
we
pray for Patience, God does
not give us patience right away; instead He gives us the opportunity to be
patient, doesn't He?
Similarly, when we pray for Courage, God does not snap His fingers and we
instantly become brave, instead He gives us the opportunity to find courage
within our conscience.
VII
When we pray for
FEAR to go away, let us not
expect that God will wipe all of our fears,
The greatest
fear is fear itself, we have to
acknowledge it and put our trust in Him;
The
enemy is invisible yet not invincible,
but God's infinite love and boundless mercy bares,
Our sinfulness
is what feeds our fear, may we find courage
to admit them and patience to await His response
without any useless whim.
VIII
The most
important tool we could
have is PRAYER, so let us --
Indulge
in prayer, and talk to God, let our FAITH
be bigger than our fear we pray O Lord;
Goodness always
triumphs -- If You are with us Dear Jesus,
then who could be against us;
We offer You our weakness and sinfulness, we lift our troubled mind and damaged spirit Dear Lord.
IX
Amidst all of these, who is Jesus in our lives? Does He really matter to
us?
Do we believe He is our Messiah? The only one who gives eternal salvation?;
In times of dreadfulness and restlessness, our faith is something that can bind us,
Somehow God is writing straight in crooked
lines, we need to believe He can
straighten out our lives for this is His church's mission.
X
My faith is bigger than my fear, I can proudly say,
I have weathered every ordeal with calmness and acceptance;
Sickness and infirmity have no power over me; God is in control of my life I dare say,
My faith is bigger than my fear, my God is bigger than life’s entire
disturbance.
AMEN.