Description: What does the gospel say about your fears? What does it say about the irrational ones, like sinkholes in the Target parking lot? How does it speak to the rational ones, like pet scan predictions? And does the gospel have a word for the fears you feel you'll have for life, like the possibility of losing the one you love most?
Growing up in the green room of SNL, being born to a fire-eater and adopted by a SWAT cop, having internal organs explode, and adopting a deaf girl from China, Scarlet Hiltibidal has been given some strange life experiences—and lived in fear through most of them.
But life changed for Scarlet when she learned to hold the gospel up to her fears. She realized that though she can't fix herself or protect herself, Jesus walked into this broken, sad, scary place to rescue, love, and cast out her—and your—fear.
Seeing life in light of the cross will help you avoid fear, overcome fear when you can’t avoid it, and live beyond fear when you don’t overcome it. You don't have to be afraid of all the things.
My Thoughts: When I requested this book for review, I was not expecting to have so much of myself reflected back at me. For most of my life, I have dealt with severe fears and anxieties which I had hidden from the people closest to me. The depth of these fears has diminished in resent years due to my own growth in knowledge of the gospel, yet it was not until reading this that I realized just how much had changed.
I used to live with so many of the fears mentioned in this book, and I thought many of the things Scarlet did as well. Reading this book has highlighted for me how much I have been redeemed from, as well as challenged me to continue to seek God through any other fears that might be stirred up.
While I was never able to articulate my anxieties as well as Scarlet has and my own testimony is different than hers, the source of our rescue was the same. This book walks through Scarlet's past fears and highlights verses which remind the reader of who God is, what he has done for us, and how we are to turn to him with everything we are afraid of. Even those that we have yet to recognize and which taint our interactions with both God and with others.
I have provided an honest review after having received a copy of this book from the publisher.
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