Getting Out of the Fear Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:2034)

Thursday, February 23, 2023
Peace to Live By: Getting Out of the Fear Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:2034) - Daniel Litton
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       Regardless, remember what he said, and it’s within one of our verses, “but perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18, ESV). Giving up control means that we are not focused on fear, but on letting out all that emotional pressure behind it. It means that when fear crops up in our minds, and this may be several times a minute initially, we have to let that fear out by not moving against it, by not trying to push it back down within ourselves. So, when a fearful thought is presented to us, a bothering thought, no matter what that is, we need to face it head on if we are ever going to overcome it. Pushing the thought down inside ourselves and saying, “Oh, I don’t want to the think about that! I don’t want to deal with that!” won’t do us any good. That is because the thought will just come back later on in time to, again, be dealt with. When we keep pushing negative thoughts down, it’s like being at Chucky Cheese when we were kids and playing ‘Whac-A-Mole.’ You know the game. You hit a mole’s head, he goes down, but then another one pops up, and you keep doing this over and over.