How can we be afraid? How DARE we be afraid?

On the trip to work this morning, I was listening to my current favorite CD "Kutless: Strong Tower" and praying and thinking about this awesome God we serve.

It's very simple, actually. We have a God who is infinitely perfect and glorious, Who loves us more than we love ourselves, Who sees absolutely every detail of the BIG picture, and Who has promised us that He causes everything to work together for our good....

When we are afraid, or discouraged, or frustrated, what we're actually saying is that we don't believe Him. Are we afraid or discouraged or frustrated? I challenge us all to remember that the second we begin to feel even the slightest tinge of any of those emotions, we should take our eyes off of the finite problem and fix them instead on our infinite Creator.

This is what I've been praying for lately: That God would reveal and magnify His glory in our thoughts, words, desires, plans, relationships and actions. That He would open our eyes and ears and hearts to receive more of Him. That He would cause us to be hungry and thirsty for more of Him and for truth and righteousness. That He would eclipse everything else in our vision with His glory and beauty. That He would capture our attention and affection so fully that in our eyes the things of this earth will pale in comparison to Him.

In the mighty name of Jesus, may He accomplish all of this and more, according to His perfect will, by His grace, and for His honor and glory.