It is true...fear has been removed from the equation but many just don't believe it. That's the insidious nature stamped upon the mind alienated from our loving Creator/Father that keeps us from seeing him as he truly is. It's the very thing that distorts the Son, our brother who revealed to us the Father whom we are safe with. What will it take to see this fear and distortion removed when there is a religious establishment (religious mindset) set on keeping it in place today just as there was a religious establishment in Jesus' day set on keeping it in place? Well, I'm not worried about it too much because I am convinced if the thick/tangled view I had lived with can be unraveled by the Spirit, there is a power at work set on doing this very thing in other's minds also. It feels like such a privilege to collaborate with Father, Son and Spirit in this process.
It feels like a page has been torn from the story of my life. The concept of an angry god, more concerned about us getting it right, has been exposed and a loving Father has been revealed through Jesus, and when this happened, repentance began to happen in my heart and mind before I was even aware of what was going on. What years of living with the angry god who was busy keeping a record could not accomplish began to be accomplished. The angry god concept of religion keeps us preoccupied with the flesh/sin and scripture is clear about what the outcome is of a mind set on the flesh...It is death.
When fear is removed and we feel safe to come home, the focus moves from our performance and law (flesh/sin) and a shift takes place. And I found out that this shift just happens when we become immersed in the the beauty and safety of the relationship with Father, Son, and Spirit. What the alienated mind has always been in need of happens, it shifts from a preoccupation on sin and the feelings of unworthiness created by it, to a mind immersed in the Spirit. Life just appears.
What a wonderful day it is when the power of the accusing gaze of another is removed and we can begin to feel comfortable in our human skin because our identity is found/grounded in what Jesus accomplished. In the season of our lives when the lies begin to be exposed and removed and Jesus begins to come into focus is the day Eternal Life begins.
To know him is Eternal Life and fear has no place here.
In a conversation just last week with my wife while we were discussing the changes that have happened in our relationship with our daughter's, I jokingly alluded to my tough approach (wink wink) to them as their father. Her response brought tears of joy to my eyes. She said..."Your daughters don't have one ounce of fear in them when it comes to you." Today I wouldn't want it any other way and this only began to happen in me once the twisted view created by attempting to fuse the angry god kept in place by religion with the Father revealed to us by Jesus was sorted out. The veil has been torn from top to bottom to reveal something so beautiful and so free of fear, and when seen, it can't help but leave us changed. Do you dare believe it?
6 comments:
excellent post kent!!!
I was thinking of you and your family today while I was walking around my university campus.
Which is weird, 'cause I've never met you. But still, we share across the ether. And I was thinking, Those daughters of Kent's, they're real lucky. I love this: 'She said..."Your daughters don't have one ounce of fear in them when it comes to you".'
That rocks, Kentster dear.
Rob, it does rock...because of the message.
Sue, what I hope for people to see is that fear just can't remain a part of our lives as loves invades our minds and hearts. It's just not possible. It's not just my girls that are lucky...we all are becuase He first loves us. I'm so grateful for this change in our home.
Fear not only sucks...it's sucks the Life out of everything where it remains.
Kent,
I do dare believe it! Thanks for being part of the long climb in my life from beliefs to faith, from fear to love!
Bones
Ron, can you imagine the glorious time it would be if a number of us that have grown in many of these things along side each other having connected through forums and our blogs were ever to get together in this life? It would be fun. Maybe it will happen at some point? But if not in this life we are assured of it in the one to come.
Kent, Thanks for challenging my thinking. As I was reading, I was realizing all the ways I still incorporate fear tactics to get the right behavior from my kids. Father help me!! I have so far to go in receiving and giving freedom, especially when it comes to my children.
I'm so convicted in hearing that your daughters don't have one ounce of fear when it comes to you. I sadly can not say the same of myself. Now, you have actually left me in tears. But, sincerely thanks!!
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