My 2 month old kitten just peed on my sheets….. Am I officially a mom now??!! Haha.

Please welcome my family and I’s newest member! Her name is Destiny Love and she is FEARLESS!!! It’s so mind blowing that such fearlessness, courage, curiosity and adventure is found in such a small little fur baby!  It has me thinking… How can you do that?  How can you fly through the air like that? How can you climb on to the TV already?!! My mother and brother have also seen her amazingness and had all of us somewhere thinking if she can do this now … then can’t even imagine what she is going to do when she gets older.  Now most of the time her curiosity and adventure has gotten her into things that can be harmful just like with any baby but while I’m witnessing  her fearlessness it made me look at my own life and asked am I living my life that the Good Lord gave me being fearless or fearful??

If I’m honest with myself and to you the answer to that question is fear.  Most of my life has been ran out of fear and I think most of us have.

 

” Oh I don’t know how I’m going to pay my bills let alone rent this month. I’m already behind!”

” Should I take the college course that I want to take. The one I’m passionate about and love or should I take the one my parents want me to take because it’s more financially stable?”

” I’ve been single for so long! I feel like quitting.  I’ll give my heart to the next guy who asks me out whether or not he’s good or bad. I just want somebody!”

” I feel like I’m a terrible wife and mother this not how I imagined my life … wait  I don’t think I have one anymore…cry.”

Okay another honest confession. One of my biggest  fears  that I’m currently working on is the fear of peoples opinion of me.  I am learning to conquer and ignore other peoples opinions and judgments about me. The Bible says in Proverbs 29:25

“The fear of people becomes a snare,
but whoever trusts in the Lord will be set on high.”

   This means that when we focus on other peoples thoughts, opinions, judgement (hating),  what they said or did, it traps us.  It puts us in the cage of fear but when we trust in The Lord Jesus.  When we shift our gaze off of peoples condemnation on to The One Who never condemns us as His children we get free from that cage and we will be set on high!

In 1 John 4:17 (MSG)

^” God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.”

   God’s perfect love casts out fear.  Fear is a tormenting spirit which our Heavenly Father  NEVER wanted us to experience.  God ‘s Word tells us to take up residence in a life  of God’s perfect love.   When we do that He promises that fear will be gone from us and let me just say and proclaim that whatever God promises in His Word He will do! So when He says it will be gone BAM! It’s gone.  So what does that look like? How can we apply to our lives as Hephzibah’s as God’s Delights? These are what have helped me in my walk with God.

 

• To fully believe that God loves you.  That “you are His beloved daughter in whom He is well pleased in  ” Matt 3:17
• To know that God does everything for your benefit and for His glory
• Read His love letter to you.  Read His word The Bible.  Meditate on it.  Apply His Word in your daily lives

I believe that by doing these things you will see that how you used to be will not even compare how you’re going to be in future.  We will fly out of the cage that held us in for so long and we will become the women of God who are fearless. Fearless to love, Fearless to give, fearless to trust and wait for God’s promises to be fulfilled, fearless to prosper as a wife, a daughter, a mother, a grand-mother, a sister and a friend.

We are FEARLESS!!

Psalm 34:4

“God met me more than halfway,
he freed me from my anxious fears”

 

XO Ashley