What Makes God Frown?

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding; in all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your path. Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2Timothy 1:7 NKJV  

Fear is insidious, and relentless and will kill your hopes, dreams and aspirations. It will make you withdraw from the world and become a spectator, when you should be living the life you awaken to each day. It's debilitating. It's crushing. And as the scripture above says, it's definitely NOT of God.
So you know who it's from then. The enemy, who seeks to kill, steal and destroy(John 10:10).

So why, so often are we so fear filled? Why so scared? Why do we have so much trouble navigating through life, not believing we are deserving of God's best, instead of latching on to what he never intends for us to have, namely fear?

It's our lack of faith. Our level of trust. Sometimes our faith is so low it doesn't even reach the bottom of our shoes. How must that make God feel? As you've no doubt heard before, we place our entire trust in pilots, train conductors, bus drivers and even our own ability behind the wheel. But when it comes to God, and trusting in His great love and affection for us, some of us fall short every time. We trust that paycheck coming. But we don't trust the One who insures it arrives. We stumble with faith. And lately, I have. And it really made me wonder, what must God think? He gives us the ability to not only open our eyes each day, but to throw our legs over the side of the bed to walk, and many times we give no thought to that, we just wake up, assuming we'll have the activity of our limbs. But the big things, we come up short. You know what

your big things are, as I do what mine are. But this must stop. We must stop. Fear is from the enemy. Why should we adhere to anything in the enemy's camp? People are fond of stating that in the Bible God instructs us to "fear not" 365, once for each day. Actually, that's inaccurate, KJV says it 103 times, but that's enough for me to know He really doesn't want us operating in fear.

So let's trust more. Let's look for God in EVERYTHING. Let's give Him His due in both the small and big things in life. Let's walk out in faith. He's never failed us. What seemed like a failure was probably a re-direction. We were going the wrong way and He did what He had to do to get us back on our path. We must believe and trust that He has our highest good in mind when things don't go to suit us, or don't go as planned. TRUST! TRUST! TRUST! FAITH! FAITH! FAITH! He requires faith. And He doesn't load us down with requirements, just the ten and FAITH. Hebrews 11:6 Says, without faith it is impossible to please God.

Kids have enormous faith and trust. Let's emulate them. They don't worry about anything, because they know we got 'em.  Let's act like we know our Heavenly Father has us!

Fear is the stinkweed of life that makes God frown.

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