Fearless Living...

   As I was prepping for the message last week on being fearless, I came across an interesting bit of insight about Stalin who ruthlessly reigned with brut force in Russia for almost 30 years.  He was responsible for starving and slaughtering more than 60 million people.  If power could deliver us from fear, then Joseph Stalin should have been fearless. Instead, this infamous Russian premier was afraid to go to bed. He had seven different bedrooms. Each could be locked as tightly as a safe. In order to foil any would-be assassins, he slept in a different one each night. Five chauffeur-driven limousines transported him wherever he went, each with curtains closed so no one would know which contained Stalin. So deep-seated were his apprehensions that he employed a servant whose sole task was to monitor and protect his tea bags.  In contrast being fearless as followers of Jesus is summed up by I Timothy 1:5 -- "The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith."  So have no fear this week!