No Reason for Fear

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I'm not afraid of dying. That's nothing for me to be afraid of because it is the inevitable guarantee in this life that one day I will be home with Jesus. It is something that will eventually happen regardless of what the world does, what I do, or what the Devil does. It's an unstoppable homecoming. One day, no matter what happens in my life or what this world does to me, I will be swimming in that ocean of God's love, liberty, glory, grace and mercy. Saturated in that ocean. Overwhelmed by it. Almost drowning in it. 

And this is an event that can't be stopped. It will happen...because I am not bound to this world forever in the body I have forever. At some point there will be a true, genuine chainbreaking that can't be prevented.

Jesus even described himself as a liberator, quoting Isaiah at the start of his ministry that he was sent to "proclaim liberty to the captives and to set free those who are oppressed." 

I am not afraid of living either because of this. I am not afraid of living and facing this world that has never played a fair game with my life because I know that even though I am not immersed in that ocean of God's love and glory (yet) Jesus lives in me. He dwells in me. In my being and my spirit. As a result, even though I'm not in that ocean, that ocean is in me. 

With that faith and the strength that comes with it I can face life with the same courage I could face death when it finally comes for me. Facing life or facing death requires a degree of courage either way, albeit different kinds and for different reasons.

I'm not afraid of evil here, even though I have faced a lot of it in my life, because no finite evil of this world can even come remotely close to overcoming the depth, scope, and power of my infinite God. 

Plus, what's the worst the Devil could do? Kill me? Then I just get to go swimming.

Keep me alive in much suffering?

Then Jesus will just swim in me.

There is no reason for fear, for to live is Christ and to die is gain. 


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