Take a minute and look at the world around you. What do you notice about the motives that drives every decision made?
Everything is either rooted in love, or fear.
Love is solid, steady,and peaceful. Fear produces the flight or fight mode in our brain.
If we were to visualize it, it would be like two birds that were built incredibly different.
Love as a bird would be bold. It would have long, solid wings that were built to be constant and secure, no matter the conditions it’s fighting in.
Fear as a bird would have short wings. They aren’t as strong. The wind can easily blow this bird and move it somewhere else.
You see, these birds cannot exist together in the same space.
Love as a bird would flow through the wind. It would soar higher and higher until it was above the wind.
Fear as a bird would be moved by the wind. It would change course to fly to a place that was easier and safer. A place it thought it belonged but truly doesn’t. It will eventually change its course when faced with opposition looking for comfort and steady winds. Choosing to fly lower and lower, until it eventually decides to always stay on the ground. That’s better for it.
It has ignored the fact that wind is inetivitable. Just like the waves following the moon, and constantly crashing against the shore, wind was built into the structure of earth as something that is unescapable.
And yet, many try to escape. They build up walls thinking that this is finally the place they can call home.
They build up prisons for themselves and offer others to come inside.
The stillness is a false sense of security that everything is okay. They know they will overcome because they face no challenge and no opportunity.
What is the difference between them? What causes the separation between the two?
Love has everything that fear does not.
Fear is the absence of love.
Love is rooted within. It is secure in itsself, where it stands, who it is, where it’s help comes from, all the things that the Lord is. It believes, and doesn’t the understanding of the outside world. That’s why it is so important that God makes His home IN us. That we have Truth in us and love makes His home in us. Meaning that we shouldn’t live with fear, because there is love there. And love endures all things and gives us strength to persevere.
Love is secure with in so can overcome
Fear is unsure and unstable so it tries to build a home of security while hiding from the mess inside. It looks to the outside to produce the assurance it so desperately desires.
Love contains everything within itsself. Fear tries to get what it lacks through the outside world.
Do you believe you can fly?
Do you believe you were born for it?
Made for it?
Capable of anything?
Give it a try sometime.
Here is your wake up call to something more. There is something bigger out there than you can imagine of see right now, if you live in fear.
You might find that your wings are bigger than the sky that you can take up.
No one can belittle you or make you feel incappable unless you let them.
Don’t let them.
Stand strong in who you are.
You can make it through this.
Chin up, darling. It’s going to be a beautiful flight.
