This is Part 6 of 7 in a series of blog posts related to the book Panic to Peace: Living Free from the Grip of Fear (CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE)
Prior posts in this blog series have told about how my life was abruptly interrupted by the horrid symptoms of panic attacks and anxiety. A long and grueling struggle with those symptoms led me to eventually realize I could not control what was happening to me. Exhausted from the long fight, I surrendered my efforts to fix myself. God began showing me that what I had been experiencing was like warning lights on the dash of a car communicating that there was a problem under the hood. In other words, something deep inside of me needed to be addressed before I could truly find freedom from the fear to which I was enslaved.
Along the way, I learned that things were not as I thought they were. For one thing, God was not who I believed He was. This was very surprising, as I thought I had a lot of the “right answers” when it came to God. However, I had simply been regurgitating knowledge about Him that I did not even believe myself. The panic and anxiety were a consequence of that. I was unaware that my view of Him was distorted by things that had happened throughout my life. Additionally, the view of myself was tarnished as well, further damaging my perspective on everything. I did not like myself very much, and was driven by more than just fear…I was driven by shame as well.
I went through a period of time of expelling lies and embracing new truths about God and myself that included facing fears I never imagined I could face and enjoying newfound freedom. However, after a while, I was left feeling like something was missing. It was all too “mechanical”. My thoughts and actions lacked something, but I just could not figure it out.
Through a few really cool interactions that God arranged, He revealed something to me that I had known about for a long time. Unfortunately, it was only head knowledge, and not something that was real to me. As His love and affection became reality, fear was robbed of its power over me.
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