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Fear is a funny thing. When you were younger, what were you afraid of? Are you still afraid of those things? As we get older, sometimes fear can feel even bigger and even scarier. Fears like feeling like we’ll always be alone or finding ourselves stuck in a career we never wanted. Fear often causes us to freeze in our tracks—terrified to make a choice one way or the other. But we were not called to live a life of fear. Instead, we are loved by the One who can drive out any and all fear, replacing it with only love.

Does that mean we, as believers, will never be afraid again? For most of us, that’s just not a reality. But what we can take hope in is that fear doesn’t have to have a chokehold on us moving forward. We can acknowledge fear while also remembering that its power is limited. Instead, it’s the love that we know that will get us through our stormy seasons of life. While fear may be our first response, it doesn’t have to be the only one.