God is love

Certainly He who dwells most high is love (1 John 4:16) Many in this world lack love because they do not know love (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). Loved should be reciprocated. He knows your heart.

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:16

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Fear of a predator

Fear looms around like a dark cloud and makes one restless.

A state of panic where your body shivers and quakes.

The core of your body turns icy cold.

Your mind holds on to that one thing that means the most to you.

In a sense fear can even make you lose your mind.

Delusions and scenarios that may or may not happen haunt you.

It holds you back and time moves painfully slow.

You watch the clock in fear that your enemy might strike at any moment.

Thus you have your guard up 24/7.

It's tiresome but you're more scared than you are tired, so you keep going.

Have you ever had that feeling?

It's normal.

We are human so we are bound to at one point feel afraid.

However, not many people know that it is dangerous to allow yourself to be in such a state for too long.

I pray that God is your corner stone in times like these.

The longer you are in such a state you slowly become desperate, more irrational and you start slipping away from your humanity.

Virtues like trust and bonds will become meaningless as you remain hell bent on surviving.

Goals and purposes in life become obscured and warped and before you know it you're merely obsessed with keeping your life for as long as you can, so much so that you would do absolutely anything.

That is dangerous.

One of two things may happen.

Become a suck up who forever lives at the bottom of the food chain or you will be consumed with a desire to reach or stay at the top of the food chain.

In both cases your focus is far off God's will and to this you will be blind.

In extreme cases you may even loose your concept of time; and become stuck in a never ending loop that never ends for you, while the whole world moves forward.

Just imagine it left by the world because of your will to keep it.

He who wishes to keep his life shall lose it and he who doesn't shall keep it.

Does this mean you should give up and allow your enemies to trample over you?

Absolutely not.

This simply means that trust in the Lord God even through your hardships and allow Him to make you strong enough to with stand your battles, thus delivering you from them.

Glorify him at all times and keep your eyes towards Him that way you will not lose direction.

For you have not been given a spirit of fear but a spirit of love

God is great and Mighty

Babylon was a great nation but God reduced it to a place where; and I quote "none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever." (Jeremiah 51 : 62) and then "Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah." (Jeremiah 51 : 64)

FUN FACT: this was the end of Jeremiah's messages.