When God is Real

"I, even I, am He that comforteth you. Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass; and forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth...?" Isaiah 51:12, 13

The smaller God gets in our minds, the more potency our fears have. This get especially bad when God becomes so small that he disappears completely from our minds eye. Fear and worry are absolutely diabolical because their immediate effect is to diminish God in the minds of the fearful. In the minds of the fearful, God becomes smaller than their problems, smaller than the world, smaller than circumstances, smaller than men, smaller than themselves. The cause of all of our fears is an improper perception of God.

Inversely, all fears cease when God is real, and I mean God; not your prejudiced opinion of God, or God as found in your human categories. When the infinite-personal, Scripture revealed God who is there is real to you (i.e., fully perceived as an abiding reality), then and only then does fear become unthinkable, irrational, and a non-entity. Ask yourself: What is fear when a man knows God? What is worry when God ceases to be small and is shown to be the God of the Scriptures? They are nothing; they are never even taken into consideration. Just as the smaller God gets, the larger our fears become, so too the larger God gets, the smaller our fears become, until they disappear.

"Keep my eyes focused

On You and You only.

Let the terrors of straying

Keep me near You..."

-Jon Vowell