I heard a really good illustration today at Kairos. Suppose you had a gun pointed at your head. I think that would inspire fear and terror and quite possibly the loss of control over bodily functions (to put it mildly). In other words, if it were me, I’d wet my pants and pass out at the same time.

Ok, now suppose you were shown the gun and the bullets being taken out. Now if the gun were held to your head, it would no longer have the same fearful effect. It would still have the ability to produce loud noises, but it would have lost any ability to do any actual damage (other than some temporary hearing loss).

If I am afraid of the devil and his demons, all I need to do is look at the Cross. The Bible says that there Jesus publically disarmed the enemy and paraded him in front of us to show Who had really won. In other words, Jesus showed us satan’s smoking gun, emptied out all the bullets, and handed it back to him.

Never again do I ever have to fear what anyone else can do to me. The only one I have to fear is the One who can destroy both the body and the soul, and that’s God. The good news is that I don’t have to fear God destroying my soul.

Think about this. The worst that could ever happen to me happened to Jesus. The very worst of hell and sin and death fell on Jesus and He took all those things to the grave and left them there. He came out of the grave unbound, bringing freedom to His children.

There’s nothing that can touch you and me as believers unless God allows it. That’s guaranteed. There’s nothing bad that God can’t turn into good. There’s nothing that will stop Him from finishing what He started in you, making you into a radiant masterpiece replica of His son Jesus.

Those things that you are so afraid of and so worried about? They’re just blanks.

That unknown future? God’s got it figured out.

Your life? It’s in the very best hands possible.