Fear keeps us bound and chained.

I have been hearing this a lot lately: “Move forward”, “Walk”, “Take the step”. I have heard these phrases in different ways over and over again in the last month or so. I will walk past strangers having a conversation and I won’t hear anything, but the word “go”. This morning on the drive to church I was listening to the song, Oceans (Where Feet May Fail), in the midst of listening I heard this in my heart, “WALK”. The song is about letting go of our limitations and allowing God to take our feet to places we didn’t think we could go. Here’s my problem. That’s not the word I want to hear, no, I want to hear, “STAY”. Why? I am scared to move, scared to walk. Because what if I fall? What if I make a bigger mess than what I am currently in? Today in a conversation with the BF he said, “What if move forward means just that?” Let me explain, in my attempt to figure out what God wants me to do I have been searching for things that are about the same as what I am doing now. I have not been looking forward, I have been looking lateral or as my boyfriend says…sideways. It dawned on me that he was right. I didn’t even entertain the idea that the reason God wasn’t opening the doors (even though He’s telling me to walk through) was because I was not entering through the right ones. I know that God loves me. I believe that He will do what He says. But I am most times too afraid, too fearful to grab hold when He’s throwing me the life-vest. My prayer is that I will allow God to break the chains of fear that bind me. That I will move forward (not sideways) into what He has prepared for me.

“The LORD is my light and my salvation– whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life– of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1).

So what’s my plan of attack? Allow God to break my fear chains and set me free to move forward to what He has for me.