Fear?

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained
-Augustine


A friend asked if Jesus ever feared when he was alive. Now I am no theologian but it certainly got me thinking. What is fear and why do we have it? I know that this is such a complex question but hang with me because i might be on to something. And what if sin was as st. Augustine describes it? Is sin maybe simply the manifestation of the idea that everything is about yourself?

I feel like possibly the only thing that causes seperation might be when one believes in this lie.

Eve saw that the fruit was good and took of it and ate it because she believed that she could be self-dependent if she did so. I feel like we all do this. We all want to be self-dependent for some reason and i feel like we tend not to look at how damaging it is.

In college, i question why i tend to be so proud about things that i acomplish and do well on. I also question why i become crushed when i feel inadequet about a paper or a class. It seems silly to bring this up but it needs to be said. Because it is not what you do that defines you. It is what has been done for you. 

The Christ has come. He died for the sin of man and destroyed the penalty of sin so that we could be be adopted into the kingdom of God. We are children of God because of what He did for us. There are tons of thoughts filling minds of college students that say who they are. Most are wrong, some are subjectively true depending on the time, but what is true no matter what for those who are saved is that they are a child of God. What greater confidence could someone attain?

Looking back on Jesus, maybe He was so aware of who He was that His confidence could not be shaken. This may have been why He never sinned. This could have been why He never feared. So why do we if we know who now lives in us?

Love, Frank