Nope, I'm not talking about the popular rock band. I'm talking about the phrase in general.
"In fear and faith...what?" you may be asking. Well I'm going to answer you from my perspective =)
Are you fearful of anything? I am. I have a pathological phobia of clowns. That means that I have an irreversible, ever-present fear of clowns. It started when I was about two or three. We were at a picnic of sorts, and this huge clown just jumped in front of me and freaked the daylights out of me. I've learned to make my fear invisible, but I'm still definitely terrified of clowns. I'm also scared of the dark (not really like in my room at night, more like the woods and outdoors at night) and of the future.
A lot of people are afraid of different things; the ocean, guns, the past, the future, spiders, small spaces...the list goes on!!
Even though these things are mighty scary, and sometimes we just give up and say that nothing will ever change, we've got to let go of our fears and give them to God. "Of course I have given it to God! I'm SCARED of it, dude!" you may say. But sometimes, we don't really give it to God. We still allow this fear to scare us, to worry us, to determine our attitudes. This FEAR is a tool that the devil can use to destroy us.
You know the saying (that is quite cliche...) let go and let God? Well. It's true. Let GO of this fear, and let God destroy it!
Now on to the second part of this phrase. Faith. "Uhm. Hello? Is it possible to be faithful, with out God?" you may be asking. Well the truth is...yeah. It is VERY possible to be faithful in something OTHER than God. We can place our faith in things like money, relationships, success, hobbies, etc.
With EVERYTHING in our lives including our fear and our faith, it has to go to God.
Fear - everything that remotely scares us, worries us, gives us doubts about anything, has to go to the Lord. You need to verbally tell Him that you no longer want control of "it", you no longer want "it" to control your life. He replaces "it" with love, peace, joy, comfort and...a feeling of content that we can't even describe.
Faith - It seems pretty elementary, but we occasional lose our faith in the Lord. The devil plants lies in our minds, and we begin to doubt Him, we begin to stop trusting in Him for the good outcome. We can't ever let the devil's lies get to us!! On the same note, we can't put out faith in anything other then the Lord. He is our Rock, our Fortress, our Joy, our Safe Haven, and in Him we should put our lives.
So to wrap this up: In our fear and in our faith, we are with Him =)
