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1 John 4:18, “…perfect love casts out fear.”
As we receive the love of God in Christ and are transformed into that same image of self-giving love, fear is cast out.
What is fear? At its roots, fear is the belief that our story will end in darkness, that we will be finally cast out, that—in the end—we will not be loved. And it is this root of all fear that is decisively severed as we receive and radiate the incarnate declaration of God’s love on the cross…
Fear is the shadow that grows up before our eyes as we turn our backs on the love of God in Christ.
