I had a lot of good responses on my blog yesterday. Several of you left comments and quite a few of you sent me emails. You appreciated my honesty and openness.
But it got me to thinking a lot about the things that hold us back, well, things that at least hold me back. I mentioned something about fear, that I fear success. Obviously success isn’t a bad thing, but the bad thing is what happens after success is achieved. Do I glory in it or does God? (And I’m talking more than just positive results to prayers for healing.)
It’s not that I fear my heart and that I fear my intentions. It’s that I’ve never been overwhelmingly successful at much, so I don’t know what would really happen.
It’s been known that the opposite of fear is love. Love, however, isn’t a verb that you replace with fear. I wouldn’t say that I should ‘love success’ or ‘love my intentions’. I guess at the end of the day it’s really battle for the mind, a fight for perspective. I know my heart, I know my intentions, and the majority of the time I’d like to say they’re rooted and established in love. If anything, in the last year, my identity in Christ has been rooted. I’ve grown into forgiveness, into life, into His grace, and so much more.
But what do you fear? What holds you back from being successful with the things that God’s birthed on the inside of you?
