Day Twenty-one: CASTING OUT FEAR
There is no fear in love;
but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.
—1 JOHN 4:18
Perfect means whole and complete. Perfect love can only come from a perfect source. This is the only love that can cast out fear. We cannot free ourselves from fear by thinking around it or avoiding it. We can’t even argue or reason with it. Fear has to be cast out by the only thing stronger than itself: perfect love.
Perfect love is stronger than fear because it is whole and complete. Fear is an incomplete revelation. With God, there is no fear without also the hope of complete redemption. The fears that torment us are severed, headless, wingless creatures that can do nothing of consequence without our help. Fear that tortures us is incomplete, because it brings no promise of redemption, no whisper of great hope.
Perfect love is the complete revelation of God. Nothing can stand before its power. It birthed the world and shaped your spirit, and it waits before you today in expectation. Let God’s perfect love in, so that it may wipe away the incomplete revelations of Him.
Ask: Reveal Your perfect love to me and cast away my fears.
Believe: God’s perfect love is entering my life, and I am whole and complete.