Freedom from Fear

He went walking and leaping and praising God (Acts 3:8)

The energy of God touching our lives is so powerful and "releasing" that we are like men drinking, freed at last from our long-held-onto inhibitions and chains.  We want everyone we know to experience what we have experienced.  For the first time in our lives, we experience "electricity" in living.  Suddenly, fans run, clothes and dishes are cleaned, our houses are air-conditioned, we have hot water mysteriously appearing on demand----all without effort on our part. 

The Holy Spirit enters into every part of our lives with His divine energy, and our lives go from pioneer-living to 21st-Century life.  But to someone who has never known the power and joy of that kind of energy, our words have no resonance.  They do not "know" electricity, so they consider us as a "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," as people drunk, delusional, as we jump up and down in our joy.

Plato used the analogy of the cave and of men experiencing shadows on the wall as their real lives.  Those who have never experienced the freedom of the Spirit of God remain in the shadows of fear and anxiety.  When the angel of the Lord says, "Be not afraid," it is much more than a command or an admonition---it is the energizing word of release from fear; the word itself takes off the chains of fear.  It is the same energy-word as "Light! Be!," the word that began the unfolding energy of creation.

When God enters our lives, He brings energy and strength and release from fear.  Living in houses without electricity, we have been like men sitting in the dark.  Once the house is "wired," we have access to the power at all times.  And then we can go walking and leaping and praising God; our chains have fallen off, and we are free.

Isaiah 9:2 puts it this way:

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined

Come, Light of the World, shine in the dark areas of our lives and release us from the power of evil!  Take off our chains and send us walking and leaping and praising God!