Perfect love casts out fear.

 Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

Perfect love casts out fear.

Not a fragile, human love that wavers and withdraws,

But the perfect, endless love that knows no flaw or pause.

It is the love that spoke the stars and called them each by name,

Yet bends to hold the trembling heart and gently whisper, "I remain."

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18)

Fear shouts of punishment—of failures reckoned, debts unpaid.

It paints a God who keeps a ledger, strict and unswayed.

But perfect love points to the cross, where every debt was met,

Where every sin, past, present, future, was settled—canceled—set.

Fear whispers of abandonment: "You're on your own, alone."

It echoes in the silence when the night has turned to stone.

But perfect love declares, "I will not leave you, not forsake.

My presence is the promise that through every storm I'll wake."

Fear trembles at the future—the unknown, the unseen door.

It dreads what lies in shadows on an undiscovered shore.

But perfect love has gone before and knows the path ahead.

It holds tomorrow in its hands and daily gives us bread.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)

So let this perfect love wash over every fear,

The anxious thoughts that surface, the unspoken, silent tear.

For in the presence of such love, fear cannot stay or stand.

It melts like winter snow before the warmth of an open hand.

I am loved. Perfectly. Completely.

Not because of what I've done, but because of who He is.

And in that love, I am free.

Fear has no place here.

Amen.