Some people are afraid of your problems. They won’t talk with you. They won’t be real with you. They avoid what really matters and keep conversations on the surface because they just don’t know how to deal with you, right? People act this way because they’re afraid. They’re afraid because they just don’t know what to say. They don’t know how to help you. Some folks like this actually do care about you, but they’re so afraid of getting it wrong or of making you more emotional, that they just won’t ever go there at all. Now, you don’t expect everyone to have all the answers... you’re just looking for a friend. You just want them to show a little love; but dang, they can’t always see that, and their fear makes them do nothing at all. They are simply afraid because they’ve never been where you are, and your problems, struggles, cycles of sin and personal issues scare the crap out of them. Well guess what... Jesus isn’t scared one bit. Jesus isn’t afraid of your issues. He’s not scared to face them head on. He’s not afraid to meet you where you are, tell you what’s in your heart and what needs to change. One time Jesus went toe-to-toe with a man so troubled and disturbed that he was isolated, alone, living in graves and cutting himself with sharp stones. Jesus spoke love and peace into his life and the thing is, Jesus didn’t just happen upon this man by chance. No, He went there on purpose. That episode appears in Mark 5, but we find out at the end of Mark 4 that Jesus crossed the lake because He was on a mission.
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