Wrong Attitudes- A Fearful Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:592)

Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Fearful Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:592) - Daniel Litton
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       But how does fear work? What is Satan really doing to us by getting us to bow the knee to fear? Well, Satan uses fear to make us think that God is against us, or that we are not free in Christ to follow God’s will. He can make us oversensitive, making us fearful that God is hard to please and that we are out of his will unless we perform to perfection in our day-to-day walk. He gives us fear through cultivating a wrong view of God in our minds. If we don’t see God correctly, as we should, then Satan can have a heyday with our thoughts. Our view of God in our minds must be aligned with what God says about himself in his Word. But Satan may get us to focus on the judgment aspects of God, especially from the Old Testament, before the time of Grace, and get us to think that God is really judgmental and probably is against us. But if we have a correct understanding of God, a good understanding, then we realize that God is in fact for us, loves us, and wants to give us his goodness. He is a loving father, not a harsh, neglecting, negative, mean, or legalistic God. Remember what Jesus said, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9, ESV). Was Jesus hard to be around?