Are You Afraid of God’s Love – Devotionals from Isaiah 43-Reflections through Lent !

Isaiah 43 Devotional
Are You Afraid of God’s Love
Prayerfully prepared by Pastor Calvin Cook

Key Verse: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you.” (Isaiah 43:1)

Are you afraid of God’s love? Most of us would quickly respond “No”! Think about your answer and ask the question of yourself once again. “Are you afraid of God’s love?” Consider the implications of your answer. Will you allow God’s love to change your heart, mind, spirit and soul? Especially your Spirit and Soul ! By allowing that change to happen, it means that you are experiencing all that God wants to do to the inner most depths of your everything. Receiving God’s love in the way it is intended by the creator of the universe and all things within it – means you change! You are conformed to the will, righteousness, holiness of God – and that change is noticeable.

1 John 4:7-12 says it this way “7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.” We show God’s love by the way we receive God’s love, the way we live into God’s love, the way we live out God’s love.

So, what are you afraid of? Are you being honest with yourself? Are you realizing that one of the things that stand in the way of complete surrender is the fear that God’s love will take you from the place and position you want to be in, that you have become comfortable with and become what God has created you to be, which is so contradictory to what the world or the evil one says we are.

Fear often arises when we feel unworthy or unsure of our place. God silences that fear with His promise: “I have redeemed you.” Jesus fulfilled this through His sacrifice, taking our sins and securing our relationship with God. Because of Him, we can face trials with confidence, knowing we are loved and redeemed.

What fears are you carrying today about a relationship with Jesus? Lay them at Jesus’ feet and trust in His redeeming power!