God does not use fear to guide His people. Fear is a paralyzing place and a bad place to stay. Our enemy, the evil one, uses fear as one of his primary weapons against us. He wants to keep us in fear. Fear is undermined trust. Enemy mode with God is when I fear that God cannot be trusted and I just want to get out of the life He has placed me in. My attachment style is affected and I run to escape instead of seeking the secure attachment with Jesus.
I get stuck if I am operating out of fear (which is the back of the brain).. I should be operating out of desire (the desire to be the “I am” God created me to be) … Hopeless despair is when I stop acting like myself … Avoiding pain , Maximizing pleasure, Pleasing others, Performing well for others are all based in fear …
The “fear of the Lord” means having respect for God; …… It does not mean being afraid of God.
So, what does it mean when I am afraid? Am I bad? …… No, I am just suffering for the most part because I am still a “child” along with the vast majority of the rest of the world. Things are not as I wish and in my control. My demands and wishes are not being met. Trust is a very hard thing to have as a RM child. I can’t trust God or anyone else to get done what I want. I just have to take care of myself. (What I really need is to just grow up and mature.)
It takes a RM Parent to go with the flow that God has for me and the course of life he has for me. I then realize that the pain, and the hard times, and the time passing me by, and human betrayals, and disappointments in what I wanted, and my crumbling kingdom, and …… and …… are all a part of my specially designed curriculum that God has prepared for me. This all matures me and brings me into the real “I am” of who I am. …. Which is like Him. (I am love … kind … gentle … faithful … peaceful … )
Soo … I really can Trust and Not be afraid; For the Lord God is my strength. Ps.56:4 … And Jesus is always with me on my course of life!! Matt.28:30