Fears Cripple, Love Moves

What's holding you back from accomplishing great things? What's keeping you from obeying the Lord and allowing him to use you in more ways than you could ever imagine? What pulls you down and keeps you from running full force in you work, relationships, and activities?

For me, it's fear. Fear is the biggest thing holding me back from living my best life – the life I know I should be living right now in this moment. Fears are crippling, they paralyze. They hold us back from a potential opportunity of great accomplishment. Love is action. It moves, it brings freedom, it motivates. Love releases the glue that binds us to fear. Love drives out fear.

There is NO fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear. -1 John 4:18

After reading several scriptures, books, and blogs on fear, I have been encouraged to write down my specific fears and tackle them on a daily basis because fears cripple. I have set up two categories of fears.
The first category is general fears:
I'm afraid of what older people think of me.
I'm afraid of large groups of people I don't know.
I'm afraid of harsh criticism in my work.
The second category is today's fears:
They are very specific to things I am facing today. I'm not comfortable sharing these on here...not in fear, but for privacy sake.

These are the fears that grab ahold of me. We constantly wrestle back and forth, back and forth. Many times, I have let fear win and I've missed out on an incredibly life changing opportunity. Fear feels tangible, like a wrestling match, but it's just that...a feeling that paralyzes . Nothing more than a feeling in our minds.

I'm tackling my fears today. Will you? I'm letting perfect LOVE drive out fears that have kept me from action..from becoming something greater than myself. Will you?