Fear Not Little Ones.

The following few verses are from John chapter 16. This chapter is where Jesus is explaining to His disciples when He will be going home to His Father. I am including the first two verses just so we can see in the last verse some of the things that Jesus has told His disciples. So take in these verses and I shall explain more following them.

John 16:20 (ISV)  Truly, truly I tell you, you will cry and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will be deeply distressed, but your pain will turn into joy.

John 16:27 (ISV)  For the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 16:33 (ISV)  I have told you this so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have trouble, but be courageous-I have overcome the world!"

So as I stated my main focus is on this last verse, John 16:33. Here, I go to the title of the blog, Fear Not Little Ones. Jesus is telling His disciples, in a nut shell, that though He may not be with them any longer that they have nothing to fear because Jesus has taken on the world and joyously overcome the world. Thusly the disciples can go out into the world and profess the Kingdom of God and do so without fear or hesitancy.

Now let's relate this to our lives. We can see this as Jesus telling us not to fear for He has overcome the sin of this world and we can then be forgiven from our sins and not fear the wrath of the Lord on judgement day. Once we have come to an understanding that we are forgiven of our sins due to Jesus' overcoming of the world, we can go out, just as the disciples did, and walk in the word to disciple to the broken world that we live in. We can do this and rely on the fact that no matter what this world throws at us, such a death, sickness, etc., we need not fear for Jesus, our God, has overcome all the world can throw!! God Bless!!