2 Timothy 1:7 God Hath Given

2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 

The Apostle Paul clearly spelt out what God has given and what He has not. He has not given us the spirit of fear. The heart that is not Spirit-filled is prone to imbibe the spirit of fear. The fear that came upon the ten spies and the children of Israel after surveying the Promised Land, frightened by the giants and mighty fortresses in the land, incapacitating them from the works of faith to inherit the land.

Rather, the Apostle Paul tells us what God has given. He has given us the spiritual power to do His will when we would yield to the spirit and deny the flesh, the world and the devil. He has given us divine love so that we may take hold of Him in purity of devotion and serve one another in love. He has also given us a sound mind, a disciplined mind, temperate and meek, to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let His people appropriate what God hath given Amen.