Last Friday, a light lit up in this little brain of mine...speaking about little brain...I remember a cousin of mine used to call me insect; a substitution of "stupid". For the longest time I wondered why he labelled me as such. One fine day, I asked him and found out the twisted truth (twisted because it is NOT TRUE!). Insects, being such tiny creatures, have tiny brains (or do they have one?). So, to be labelled as an insect means one has as tiny or as little a brain as an insect...How kind that cousin of mine was! I hope he has since repented of such evil!!!
Anyway, coming back to the matter at hand, a light lit up concerning this Scripture that has always given me trouble, "Perfect love casts out fear." I never understood this portion of Scripture until that awesome Friday night. Here is the revelation...
God is perfect and therefore, His love (for you and I) is perfect. There is not even a shadow of evil in God's perfect love for us. He loves us perfectly, fully, completely. His plans for us are good and wonderful. He watches over us to provide for, protect, and preserve us. With God, the Supreme Sovereign doing all these for us, what shall we fear, who shall we fear? Nothing and no one! NO FEAR!
Our heart can rest secure in His love. I heaved and breathed a great sigh of relief that night and a peace rolled into this little heart of mine...sweet sweet love of God filling my soul, making me whole.
O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,
Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,
That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one.
Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,
That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one.
O perfect Life, be Thou their full assurance,
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,
Of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
With childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death.
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,
Of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
With childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death.
Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
And to life’s day the glorious unknown morrow
That dawns upon eternal love and life.
Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
And to life’s day the glorious unknown morrow
That dawns upon eternal love and life.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
Through Jesus Christ, Thy coeternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
Through Jesus Christ, Thy coeternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
