I know you’re afraid of what the future holds. I know you look out onto the uncertainty of the coming weeks and months not knowing what you’re going to do if the worst happens. Are you out of money? Is that relationship ending? Is your fate in someone else’s hands? You may feel as though you’re standing there, helplessly watching as your life crumbles in around you, and it’s scary. What are you going to do? What if you can’t do anything? Let me ask you something: do you remember being a kid and running into the arms of a parent or grandparent when you were scared? Can you remember the way it felt to be picked right up off the ground by someone so big and strong? You didn’t know what to do, so you just snuggled up into the warmth of someone who loved you and could hold you. The miracle was that it actually made you feel better. Your fear fell away in that person’s embrace. Without your situation changing at all, you were less afraid. You laid down your fear in that person’s strong arms and felt comforted. In Mark chapter 5, a man’s daughter died, and as his heart hammered with immediate upheaval and distress, Jesus said, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.” Jesus had just healed a very sick woman and called her His daughter. He knows how to care for frightened kids like a loving dad. He’s strong enough to hold you when you’re scared. Will you run to Him? What if you went to Jesus like a scared little kid in the middle of a huge thunderstorm? Go to Him. Tell Him what you’re afraid of. Give Him all of your fears.
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