The Effects of God's Enduring Love


Within a person who is filled with love, there is no room for fear. John succinctly says that “perfect love casts out all fear.”

The Gospel of Mark 6:45-52 makes a clear commentary on the lack of genuine love to be found in the hearts of the apostles. They need to develop a much deeper love if they ever hope to be without fear. Their fears are very evident in this incident where Jesus comes to them walking on the water.

First, they are afraid of the storm. Then, Mark says, the high winds frighten them. Finally, the entire group is terrified by Jesus himself.

In the early morning darkness, they mistake him for a ghost.

In essence, Jesus was both saying and demonstrating that they had a long way to go in order to achieve that perfect love which casts out all fear. If the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, then complete wisdom is found in the love God.

When our love of God is complete then all fear will have disappeared.

Live this day with so much love of God that my fears will, at least temporarily disappear.