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Living for Him

No Fear

Word-Snacks: bite-sized devotionals for your hungry moments

There we were, sitting around her kitchen table. Her whole house is warmth and comfort and gentleness. She asks the questions everyone should ask– looks right at me and digs right into the deepest-truest part. “And how are you doing, really? Are you struggling with fear?”

Many people have mentioned it, but in statements. “I’m sure you’re nervous, but it’ll all be okay.”

But she doesn’t. She asks the question and lets it dangle there in the air between us, waiting.

Am I struggling with fear? Yes. Yes, of course.

It’s good for me to admit it. It’s good for me to stumble through a few random lists.

And it’s good when, afterward, she stands up and grabs her ipad, “There’s a verse…” she says. Then we read it together and truth sinks down deep into my bones.

I went searching for it this morning, as the sunlight streaked through the bright kitchen window. This passage in Proverbs. I read it, again and again.

but whoever listens to me will dwell secure,
and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.

She explained it so well that evening. How it doesn’t say that disaster won’t come. How it doesn’t promise protection from everything bad.

No, it promises security– knowing the end, despite the middle junk. It promises ease and peace, not having to be afraid of the “what-ifs” and “might-coulds”.

I sit and I eat my fill of this promise:

Word-Snack: Proverbs 1


What did you read today? What has God reminded you of, or revealed to you?

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  1. Robin Baker says

    October 2, 2014 at 12:09 pm

    Natasha you are so good with words! I needed this. Thank you.

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  2. Nest Full of Birds says

    October 2, 2014 at 8:37 am

    I just read something similar, purely out of coincidence. {Fear of man is a dangerous trap, but to trust in God means safety. Proverbs 29:25 TLB} My husband is a corrections’ officer and there’s a lot of people who hate him. I’ve been afraid for his safety many times. I’m also afraid sometimes for mine and my daughter’s safety. Our county is in a bad place financially and in transition. Many people are lashing out at the local law enforcement and have made death threats against some of them. It’s ugly and scary right now. We just came from the Navy a couple of years ago, so this is tough for me. My husband was in the military, but I came out with PTSD too. It’s so easy to fear, but God knows all our days and He’s given us a promise that He will never leave us or forsake us. I so need to rest in that, and in not fearing what man can do to us.

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    • Natasha Metzler says

      October 2, 2014 at 9:41 am

      Hmm… yes. Right now we’re in a vulnerable place where it feels like we’re dependent on other people, whom we don’t particularly trust, to have a positive outcome. But this has been my reminder. I am NOT actually dependent on them. God is the one in control, no matter how it looks in the present. My job is to listen to and follow Him. <3

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  3. curtdelite says

    October 2, 2014 at 8:14 am

    Excellent!!

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