so i’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. FEAR.

i’ve come to the conclusion that fear is a learned behavior. 2 Tim 1:7 says that God didn’t give us the spirit of fear… that’s means somewhere along the way we picked it up. my 10 month old son caleb is pretty much fearless, those of you with kids know what i mean, he just doesn’t know to be scared of stuff. i mean the other day i look over just in time to see him pulling himself up on a lamp which when he did brought the lamp crashing to the ground… glass goes flying everywhere, it was loud as ever, my stomach dropped and i about passed out (not really the passing out part) but there caleb sits in the middle of all the chaos like nothing had happened. fearless.

granted there are times when having a healthy respect for things is good, but i am tired of seeing people limited by straight up fear. fear of man. fear of failure. fear of letting go. fear of moving forward. fear of (fill in the blank). that’s not the way God has called us to live. i don’t believe that’s the mighty church He envisioned us being. 

so, today embrace the mighty man/woman God has called you to be and let go of the fear that’s been holding you back and holding up.