Fearlessly Jesus

Do you have a pet fear or two? Sure, we all have those things which cause us fear more than other things. Yours may involve a creepy, crawly thing or perhaps a situation such as flying. You may even feel like Charlie Brown, afraid of everything. Jesus had no fears. If we might get Jesus to admit to any fear it might be something like, "I fear you won't believe in Me." Of course, as the Good Shepherd, He knows His own sheep. So, we can't really call that a fear since He knows the outcome already. Even using 'fear' in the wrong way like that we can see that His fear is only love for us and not something that our Lord is afraid of, as our fears are for us.

Then, what if you knew that your death would be a horrible ordeal of pain and suffering? Jesus knew every detail and still went forward fearlessly as a lamb to the slaughter. A lamb with full knowledge of exactly what was to come. Fearlessly facing the fearful future is rather a trademark of our Lord. We might say that He knows what comes after and had that to look ahead past the bad stuff. Truly our Lord knows all of the future, but He most certainly didn't get to skip over the bad parts.

Many times Jesus commanded us to fear not and to not be afraid, and He lived that example. Now, He lives in us and through His strength we can conquer fear. I hope to let you know immediately the day that happens in me.

Let Jesus conquer that fear!
Bucky