Sometimes you are afraid to be the person you really are. Afraid to admit that what you see inside yourself is not who you want to be. Not the person everyone around you thinks you are. That at your deepest core and rawest moments, you are falling apart.

Sometimes you live a life you don’t like. Live a life you don’t want to live. Because you don’t know how to change. Because you’re afraid to change. Afraid to leave the terrible ruts that mean comfort for the new roads that mean change. You choose easy over good.

Sometimes you are afraid to trust God. Afraid that letting Him have all of your life – and your dreams – will mean He will ask more of you than you are willing to give. To do something you don’t want do to. To sacrifice something you are afraid to let go of. To wait longer than you can wait. Your heart trembles to believe, longing to let go, yet clinging desperately.

Oh God, free me from this fear. Free me from being afraid. From this prison that closes around me like a heavy darkness, blocking out the light of truth that I crave to soak beneath. Free me to be the person you made me to be. To live the life you made me to live.

Free to trust You, and to trust Your Love.

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” – 1 John 4: 16-18