Living life with out fear.

Everyone today has reason to fear something, whether it be stock market crash, fear of the unknown, fear of heights, fear of terrorism, or fear of death. We live in a world that feeds on these fears, one needs only to open a paper or watch the news at night to see that this is true. There have been political agendas set forth because of our fears.

Max Lucado tackles this subject head on in Fearless. He takes the reader back 2000 plus years to the days of Jesus and shows the reader some of the most fear inducing times in the Bible. He talks about the disciples and the fear they faced in a raging storm, before the demon possessed man, and after his death. He writes about Jesus and the most fearful agonizing time of His life as he prayed in the Garden before His very death on the cross.

Max expertly relates the fears of today with those from antiquity and shows how we are not that diffrent from those in the 1st century. The reoccuring thought throughout Fearless is the many verses Jesus says "Do not be afraid"

This book is perfect for anyone,( and lets be honest that is all of us) going through or about to go through major storms in your life. Just as the storm raged on the lake the disciples and Jesus were on. So does the storms rage in our lives. We may feel that just like the 1st century disciples that we do not understand why God chooses to sleep while the waves crash around us. We see that Jesus steps out on the water when the storm is at its worst and calms the sea in our lives. Lucado gives us examples of fear inducing times and storms that may rage in our lives and how our Savior the one who made the clouds can calm them in your life.

Max also relates how storms and trouble in our lives serve a purpose. Though we may feel we are forgotten or alone in our storms we see how they are there to work for our good, just as a prenatal infant must struggle in the womb so must the Christian who has not seen the after life.
Max expertly gives examples of people through out history and his own life stories to relate the reader to Jesus Christ

Lucado's book "Grip of Grace" is a book that I go back to many times in my life for advice, instruction and encouragement. This has been a very important book in my library. I will now have to put "Fearless" next to that book as an important book to refer to for situations in my life. I highly reccomend this book to everyone that reads this blog.