tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70601211173762169.post6196332627591547294..comments2023-09-14T14:45:27.526-04:00Comments on DevoLink: Are you Afraid?DevoLinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01923530518809707031noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70601211173762169.post-71348026309571623072011-06-27T10:00:44.031-04:002011-06-27T10:00:44.031-04:00I found your comment on fear most apt. We are pla...I found your comment on fear most apt. We are planning out the Green family annual family vacation, and this year we are going to Yellowstone National Park. In trying to talk up the family vaca, I tell my daughter (aged nine) that we will be camping in the caldera of a volcano this year. <br /><br />Several days later, my daughter tells me in no uncertain terms that she does not want to go to Yellowstone, because volcanos are dangerous because we would be burned by the molten rock and lava flows. I guess my daughter researched volcanos and learned all about eruptions. She also probably saw some dramatic video clips from Hawaii.<br /><br />I allayed my daughter's fears and told her that Yellowstone is dormant, but the volcanic nature of Yellowstone makes it interesting. <br /><br />In reflecting on that interaction, I sometimes wonder what my heavenly father thinks about my fears. Do they seem as irrational to Him as my daughter's fears of Yellowstone?<br /><br />God's answer to both my daughter's and my fears is found in Psalm 46<br /><br />God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.Richard M. Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01656009203813063742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70601211173762169.post-35548826467321052042010-11-11T12:47:29.495-05:002010-11-11T12:47:29.495-05:00Well said. I accomplish little of significance whe...Well said. I accomplish little of significance when I try to live in the Spirit but walk by the flesh. I am not strong and only when I realize that is when I can receive His truth:<br /><br />“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11744398644158828139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70601211173762169.post-18981410773043141602010-11-09T14:31:43.225-05:002010-11-09T14:31:43.225-05:00Jeffrey - great to hear from you. Thanks for your...Jeffrey - great to hear from you. Thanks for your honesty. I posted both your comments because I figure few people know you by your user name and more importantly, what you have to share strikes at the core of all of us. <br /><br />It is difficult to admit fear and inability. It is an important thing though. It is the path that was required for us to meet Jesus in the first place and it remains the path to stay close to Him. Those that recognize and admit that they are "poor" in spirit are they that meet the Savior!<br /><br />Those that continue to walk in this way find spiritual wholeness.<br /><br />"Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, SO WALK in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude." Colossians 2:6-7DevoLinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01923530518809707031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70601211173762169.post-60080104813650596492010-11-09T12:59:15.968-05:002010-11-09T12:59:15.968-05:00I posted before, but it didn't show up, so hop...I posted before, but it didn't show up, so hopefully, round 2 works better. It is great to see you back!<br />I was beginning to think you were gone for good.<br />This was really a blessing for me today, as it confirmed something God keeps telling me. In your last sentence, you wrote about taking your worry list to our Father. I have so much trouble doing this, alternately because of vanity and shame, which ultimately leads to pride on either side. <br />I tend to feel like a failure when I need help. Telling God "I can't do it", not just "on my own" but simply I can't do it", period. That is hard. Dying to my self is a big one for me.<br />Thanks for the encouraging words.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11744398644158828139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70601211173762169.post-80197037948994648522010-11-09T08:56:14.444-05:002010-11-09T08:56:14.444-05:00Good to see you back up and running. Good thoughts...Good to see you back up and running. Good thoughts. I feel like this was another affirmation of what God has been saying to me about casting my cares to Him. Thanks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11744398644158828139noreply@blogger.com