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Pushing Fears Out

I'm learning to trust.

Emily Anne Roberts

Jul 05, 2016

Capital University

Emily Roberts

Do you have a fear? We all have something. It's that something that you want so bad to just stomp on and wish that some days it would just fall off the face of the Earth. We can think these things are goofy and might even laugh at them when others bring it up because we don't know how else to respond. They might haunt us in the bad dreams we have or in everyday life. Was it something that rose up from your childhood? Was something you saw in a movie? Or, maybe it was a person that placed that fear in your life? I have a fear and it is not my number one fear, but it is number two. What is it? Trusting someone too much.

I know that for some people trusting is easy and for others, not so much. Our past tends to reflect what has come up as a fear in our lives. For me, it was the person that broke my trust a few years ago. I never had a problem with giving someone who I thought I knew all my trust. From there on out, it affected how I could place my trust in someone. That fear haunted me and that feeling in my gut would arise many times after that. Why though? Why did I let that fear get to me so much? I cannot control that now, but as I reach into different pieces and parts of my life I discover ways that I am now growing from that. I tended to reach to control as a coping mechanism. Then, when I could not control things I would just sleep, because that gets rid of your problems... nope! Eventually though, I turned to this verse in the Bible (and still turn to it).

“In God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” ~ Psalms 56:11

Any & every fear is not impossible to overcome, for God can do anything in our lives. I work on it through my spiritual and mental life everyday. This verse reminds us that we have nothing to fear and that He helps us every day because He is our rock and protector. Our ultimate Father protects us from everything, even when it seems like it is not. It can be easy when fears happen to question where the Lord is, but he has a path for your life and wants that path to glorify him. It is our job to remember to not be afraid and conquer these fears, even if it’s hard to trust.

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