Love Or Fear? THAT Is The Question
Love Or Fear? That Is The Question
Love Or Fear
“Perfect Love Drives Out Fear” Apostle John (Yochanan)
The Apostle James, the half-brother of Messiah, spoke of a similar concept, mixing Faith and Doubt, Kind Words and Evil Words.
Love, in its purest state, leaves no room for fear. In the heat of battle, a soldier who loves his brothers in arms will run across the crossfire to reach a wounded comrade. His love for his buddy has overrode his fear.
The love of a mother for children allows her to have more children, despite the fear of the pain of labor.
The Love of God for those who are adopted as sons in His Kingdom helps them to override their fears. The Love He gives them (Grace) and the Love they give Him in Obedience to His Ways (Torah) instead of the World’s Ways (tradition, philosophy, and culture) allows them to overcome fears of not being adequate in the world’s eyes, of not “fitting in” because they live by God’s Laws, of not having their desires fulfilled in this life (Because they have better desires for the life to come.)
You see, Love defeats fear simply because it is so much greater. Love serves a higher calling, and love is the higher Law. The purpose of each of God’s Law is Love, teaching man how to Love God, love His neighbor, and Love his own good.
Love is the ultimate motivator, all other things are weak and powerless in comparison.
Fear may motivate or even control for a time, but there is a limit to fear. Most fear death most of all, and once they no longer fear death then fear has no control over them. The effectiveness of fear is limited by human mortality. Fear is also limited by the human mind, because the mind can rationalize many ways to escape what they fear, even if they fear hell, it can be rationalized away.
Love is stronger because it can’t be rationalized away, love is stronger than the grave as many will face death out of love-voluntarily, but not out of fear. Love is not subject to ever changing circumstances as fear is. Love has a higher goal than the preservation of self.
Simply put, Love is Larger. The Apostle Paul describes martyrs by saying that the ‘Joy set before them” had overrode their fear. What was this joy? Spending countless eons with the One they love, the one who loves them back. Because of their great Love, they will dwell forever in a Kingdom ran by YHVH’s Laws, the Laws that tell us how to love, and since these Laws will be obeyed perfectly out of Love, this Kingdom is a Kingdom without Fear.
Messiah tells us in Matthew 5:17-19 that those who keep and teach the Commands of YHVH (the Commands that show us How to Love G-d and Love our neighbor) will be called Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Think about it, those who knew and practiced Love in Life, will be co-ruling a worldwide government! And they will be led and ruled themselves by the very embodiment of Love.
This will be a Kingdom where every citizen is circumcised in the heart.
When the heart has been circumcised, and the flesh (god of self) has been removed, then Love is free to reproduce. In Romans chapters 7 and 8 Paul says that “the Flesh is HOSTILE to the Law of YHVH, it cannot submit to YHVH’s Law nor does it wish to do so.”
The “Flesh” fears, it fears above all else, it fears losing its throne, it fears not having the ability to make you sacrifice all you have to preserve it.
Therefore it is hostile to God’s Law, which is Love for God above all else. Love demands the bravery, and faith, to sacrifice the flesh and its desires for something lesser.
When we sacrifice out of love, we are not just losing something, we are trading it in for something immensely better.
The problem is not that we love alcohol, drugs, money, porn, fame, applause, etc, too much, the problem is that we haven’t yet found something worth loving SOOO MUCH MORE. This is the point of John Eldredge’s book “Journey of Desire”. Desire is not the problem, desiring the lesser things instead of the greater things in the problem.
Like the girl in the picture, if we focused on the Love that awaits us for all eternity, then the sacrifices and trials now are a cause for rejoicing, because they bring us closer to the source of overwhelming Love later.
If someone received a $5 for every $1 that was stolen from him, then he would rejoice when his $1 was stolen. In the Law of God, every thief must pay back at least 5 Fold. For everything that thief, HaSatan has stolen, he must pay back 5 times more! Messiah said we would have returned to us all we have lost for his sake, family replaced with a 1,000 brothers and sisters for each one that rejected you, 1,000 fields of physical territory in the millennial reign for every one that was stolen from you on earth.
In the beginning and still today, haSatan steals the praise and glory from God, and in the end, he must return it all times 5. He steals much from us today by way of his servants and his influence on us, but in the end, he will be forced to pay back 5 fold and more.
Everything meant to destroy us now, that we overcome, will be used as a measurement for our blessing later. What was stolen, will be returned 5 times. The trials we have now, will be returned with joy 5 times. The Fear we have now for 50 years, will be wiped away with Love for 50,000 years.
NO FEAR. THIS WILL BE SO AWESOME.
When he told you you’re not good enough
When he told you you’re not right
When he told you you’re not strong enough
To put up a good fight
When he told you you’re not worthy
When he told you you’re not loved
When he told you you’re not beautiful
That you’ll never be enough
Fear, he is a liar
He will take your breath
Stop you in your steps
Fear he is a liar
He will rob your rest
Steal your happiness
Cast your fear in the fire
‘Cause fear he is a liar
When he told you were troubled
You’ll forever be alone
When he told you you should run away
You’ll never find a home
When he told you you were dirty
And you should be ashamed
When he told you you could be the one
That grace could never change
Fear he is a liar
He will take your breath
Stop you in your steps
Fear he is a liar
He will rob your rest
Steal your happiness
Cast your fear in the fire
‘Cause fear he is a liar
Let Your fire fall and cast out all my fears
Let Your fire fall Your love is all I feel
Let Your fire fall and cast out all my fears
Let Your fire fall Your love is all I feel
Let Your fire fall and cast out all my fears
Let Your fire fall Your love is all I feel
Oh, let Your fire fall and cast out all my fears
Let Your fire fall Your love is all I feel
Oh, fear he is a liar
He will take your breath
Stop you in your steps
Fear he is a liar
He will rob your rest
Steal your happiness
Cast your fear in the fire
‘Cause fear he is a liar
‘Cause fear he is a liar
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