By Carlos C. Brown
Good Morning Peeps, how are you and yours doing this day morning, good I hope? Are you having a good week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed day and rest of the week too! - May God Bless You and Yours In 2019 and Beyond!!! And AMEN goes right here….
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“This is the day that the Lord has made! I will rejoice and be glad in it!”
A Christian Cowboy Perspective:
Morning Thoughts For Today – “Your Fears Will Never Lead You To A Positive Ending…”
What is “fear” and where did it come from or originate? The Bible says that “fear” is NOT of God? See below for some Biblical verses about that dreaded word “F-E-A-R”:
1 John 4:18
There is no “fear” in love; but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Genesis 9:2
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, “Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.”
God has not given us a spirit of fear:
Our new life as followers of Christ is not an existence characterized by fear or timidity. With God's support, we can boldly go out and proclaim the good news, with nothing to fear from any human or spiritual power.
So basically, if the only thing in this world we should fear is God, why is it so hard for us to not fear so many other things? We as a human race tend to fear things that we find to be either intimidating, or terrifying as a natural reaction. How can we say we have full Faith in God, when we tend to fear so many other things that has absolutely NOTHING to do with God? We fear change, we fear perception of what other people think, we fear the effort it takes to accomplish anything extra ordinary, believe it or not we fear peer pressure, when God is the only true friend we need, we fear failure so much that some people won’t even try to accomplish anything. The official dictionary definition of “Fear” is – A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc…whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Examining that a little bit closer, “a distressing emotion” that says that “Fear” basically “Stresses Us Out” to an extent. It gets us all worked up, our minds start to run rampant with us about all the “what if’s” that could happen. The definition goes on to say “by impending danger, evil, pain, etc….whether the threat is real, or “imagined?” So if I understand that correctly, even your “anticipation of a threat” can lead you to be stressed out. This is the perfect example of my subject heading “Your fears will never lead you to a positive ending” In other words, either your biggest fears will come true and you can’t do anything about it, or they won’t and you’ve worried yourself sick (sometimes literally) for no reason. Reminiscing back to my early childhood days, there were plenty of examples of “Fear” in my own personal life, the first one that comes to mind, is when I was old enough to realize that growing up without my biological father after his untimely fatal accident at his job was going to be very hard. Seeing so many of my other cousins and friends who still had their fathers made me really angry at God at times. Why God? Why did MY father have to be taken so soon and at such an early age? From all accounts, he was a good honest, family man, who loved his family dearly and protected them from any and all threats of any kind with his very life if he had to make that sacrifice. He was a good man with a powerful Faith in God and being saved, so WHY did You take him so soon before I even got to know him? Lord, I was only 1 ˝ years old when you took him….WHY Lord WHY? Who will teach me all the things a father is expected to teach his son, WHO Lord? Who? I was very bitter, to an extent I still am. I feel it is why I strive so hard to be a good father to my only child Dawson. I never want him to feel the pain, bitterness, and emptiness that I have felt for so many years…
Then, the next of the earliest of my fears became of my mother’s disciplinary actions when I messed up. I’ve told you in previous “Thoughts for todays,” about the “fear” I had when I was in elementary school and mistakenly took that whistle pop from the local grocery store without paying for it because the wrapper was tore open and the whistle pop was broken into pieces and lying on the floor of the store. The very moment my buddy “Twan” put me on blast on the school bus, where my brother and sister and aunt were present, the fear of knowing that mom would know of my “mistake” soon after she would arrive home from work. The fear of the pain she would inflict on me overwhelmed me, and for good reason because in that case, my worst fears came to reality! Another example, is when a Tornado struck my mom’s neighborhood. My mom, my brothers and sisters and I all sit veering out the kitchen window watching it destroy everything in its path as it seemed to be going away from us. Then, without warning, it turned its course and headed straight for my mom’s house. We made a mad dash down to my mom’s bedroom closet as fast as we could, clearly hearing the freight train sound getting louder and louder as the Tornado came closer and closer to our house. The fear that we had running thru us at that very moment was so intense that none of us spoke a word outside of Praying hard that God spare our lives. And you know what, HE DID! The Tornado must have went back up in the cloud right before reaching our house because the only damage our house sustained, was the windows being blown out and some of the shingles ripped off the roof. Don’t tell me God isn’t a God that answers Prayers!!! I remember the “fear” of getting on my first horse that wasn’t broke, this was kinda stupid considering I had rode horses many times before, but not unbroken one’s. In my family, it was my right to Cowboy manhood, breaking your first horse. And of all things, it was a Welch pony not a full grown horse. Now before you laugh, understand something, Shetland ponies, Welch ponies, are some of the meanest, honriest horses on this earth before they are broke and trained! This Welch pony bucked so hard, took off running thru brier patches, and under low lying tree branches trying his very best to buck me off. And yes, he succeeded a few times, but each time my uncles told me “boy, you get back on him, don’t let him think he tougher than you, what would your daddy “Tuff” say if he was still alive if you don’t get back on a horse that bucked you off?” Well after looking down at my jeans all torn to shreds and my legs bleeding from the briar patch and the other bruises and pain I was experiencing, I was tempted to say “I don’t care” LOL! But I was determined to show them I was my father’s son! He was known for being one of the best horse breakers and trainers in our area and also for having NO fear whatsoever of anything, man or beast. He was not afraid of anything, mean as can be when the situation called for it and “Tuff” as nails, and so I bounced back up on that horse each time! And lasting a little longer in the saddle each time than before until he finally gave up on bucking, because at one point I didn’t come off and he bucked a pretty good lick and I think he got tired. My “fear” got less and less after each time I survived staying on him longer than the previous buck off! The last fear moment I’ll mention, was the time my son Dawson stopped breathing when he was still a toddler. I was at work in a meeting, the department secretary comes in and says “Carlos, you need to get to the hospital as fast as you can your son Dawson stopped breathing.” At that very moment, I was totally consumed with “fear”, I couldn’t breathe right, I was dazed and confused about why or how this could happen, I immediately thought the worst, at one point I thought MY heart has stopped beating because my chest was hurting so bad at the thought of my son being taken from me so young. Then I came to my senses when I got in my truck, I paused just long enough to say “Lord, I don’t care what you do to me but Please, PLEASE, don’t take my son from me right now, PLEASE heal him Lord in whatever it is that’s wrong with him in your mighty Son Jesus’ name, AMEN!!” I sped to the hospital, down one of the busiest streets in my town that runs right by the local college. I run up in the emergency room and tell them who I am and they point me to where he was. I run in there and see his mother and low and behold my son that means everything to me, was not only back breathing again and sitting up on the bed. He spun around when heard me run in and goes “Deddy, deddy, deddy, deddy, reaching his little arms outward towards me. I grabbed him up and hugged him so tight that I probably caused him to have trouble breathing all over again! You see, what I didn’t know was that God had already covered my son that day, he had started back breathing shortly after stopping, and even before the ambulance had arrived to get him, due to running a fever too high from cutting his new teeth. The doctor told us had it been his mom or myself or any other adult, we would have died on the spot from that fever being so high. But a child’s body will shut down as kind of a safety protective measure automatically. Despite my fearing the worst from now knowing, God was sitting up in Heaven with the mentality it seemed “Carlos, I got this, Dawson is already covered in the Blood of Jesus and he is fine”. Everyday we as humans allow “F-E-A-R” to imprison us, hold us hostage as if in shackles, destroy our hopes, dreams, futures, all because we are too scared to push past them and step out on that limb of FAITH. Today, make the decision NEVER to allow fear to control your life and especially your future!
Can I ask you a question to ponder today?
What good or positive things are YOUR “fears” steering away from today?
Can I get an Amen?????
“Today, Choose To “Ride or Die” With Jesus Christ 110%! Afterall, isn’t that EXACTLY what HE did for US on the Cross at Calvary?”
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