Tuesday, 1 April 2014

What are These Invisible Ropes?

What are These Invisible Ropes?
I never knew I was so afraid of darkness until power goes out. One day I had reached home much earlier than usual from work, and as usual, I went straight to the kitchen and started cleaning up dishes as well as tidying my house. I was now preparing to make supper when suddenly the lights went out. Guess what I did? I literally ran out of the house like a mad woman. (Sometimes when I think about this, I start laughing)
Fortunately power was back, and my husband was also home. I explained to him what had just occurred and he was perplexed. Again such a situation happened but this time round we were together in the house. He was in the living room and I was in the bathroom. I literally ran to the sitting room where he and I was panting heavily! He asked me, “Brenda, why are you afraid of the dark?” I told him, “I don’t know. It’s just that I hate darkness. I actually fear something will attack me”

It’s amazing that something like FEAR can tie many and even hinder them from accomplishing their God given purpose. Many of us are afraid of others, we, situations etc and we allow fear to live and even rule us. This rope called fear is an obstacle to success and sadly cannot produce any good fruit no matter how hard we cultivate it.
I got this image from a fear site:

My question at this point is why are we often so afraid? Well think about it, who is the perpetrator of fear? The devil. His ultimate desire is to steal, kill and destroy. But good news is Jesus Christ came that we may have life and life in abundance.
With Jesus Christ, the rope of fear is cut and faith begins to take over. Get encouraged today and overcome all your fears through the power of the cross in Calvary. Listen to what Psalm 27:1 says,

The LORD is my light and my salvation-- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid?

Are there other invisible ropes?
We shall look at that in our next piece. Hope you are encouraged so far by these two pieces. Let me know what you think of them as well.

God bless you

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