There is a lot on my mind this morning and none of which I want to put in a blog. I’m unsure what I should be writing today. Our pastor’s sermon yesterday was the start of a new series called Breakthrough. The emphasis is calling upon our Lord Jesus for the breakthrough need/s we are currently facing in our lives. It is a powerful and igniting series.

There are things in my life I don’t like to talk about. This has been the case for me every since I was a youth and began to realize how dysfunctional my life was. I didn’t want others to think I grew up in this type of environment so I kept it a secret. Yes, I’ve written my autobiography and I tell my story as needed when I’m counseling someone who seems stuck. Anyone has access to my life story. Yet, anytime something comes up for me which troubles me I don’t want to talk about it for fear it will label me. I’ve talked to a couple of my friends more recently about this. They’ve told me they are no different. They don’t have my past, but they do have the same fear of life labeling them if they share something that would be out of the ordinary (at least in their own mind).

As I was journaling about this with Jesus He reminded me of what Paul wrote in I Corinthians 10:13, “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man, and God is faithful….” All of this makes me realize that even though fear first surfaces as a consequence of flesh, I may experience this, but I want to respond to it in TRUST as the scripture states: GOD IS FAITHFUL!