| “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” |
| —1 John 4:18 |
Love has an ability to permeate the entirety of a person’s being. Love can turn someone who is mired in depression into a person with a much brighter outlook on life. Love can foster the development of a joyful spirit. Love can put a perpetual smile on a person’s face.
If love can do these things and more, just imagine what God-breathed love can do. Indeed, God-breathed love can turn a spirit dark with the stains of many sins into a spirit that is totally clean and whiter than the whitest snow. God-breathed love can heal broken relationships, restore damaged friendship, supercharge marriages, elevate a person in the eyes of an employer, and much, much more.
A major advantage brought about by God-breathed love is that it can totally overcome fear. It can take someone who is locked in the rigid grip of pervasive fear and set that person free. Notice what the Apostle John wrote, as recorded in 1 John 4:18:
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Is there something that we dread today? Is there something that is creating terrifying fear within the core of our beings? Is there something that has us tightly bound, unable to function, with an overwhleming sense of dread and foreboding?
If so, let us begin this new day by asking God to fill us full-to-overflowing with His God-breathed love. The Holy Spirit will use that God-breathed love to cast fear out of our beings. We can strike off into this day with the kind of freedom that can only come from the God who loves us so very much.
Living in this fearful world, yet without fear, is a great blessing. And, it is one that we should ardently seek. How about it? Will you join me in making this request of God for His God-breathed love to permeate every aspect of our being?
Based on a blog originally posted on Thursday, June 1, 2017
