Camp Devotions, Part 2

Here's the devotion for day two:

Overcoming Fear
Jared Altic


What frightens you?

It may be scary movies or big empty houses. You might be frightened by spiders, heights, water, closed spaces, or even your own shadow. You could even have triskaidekaphobia! What’s that you ask? The fear of the number 13.

But phobias, by definition, are irrational fears. We don’t need to be afraid of bugs, or public speaking, or clowns with big red noses. Our emotions tell us we are paralyzed by these things but they shouldn’t have any effect on us at all!

But there is a real fear that drives both children and adults. It both motivates us and paralyzes us. It’s the fear of rejection and being alone. We are scared to death that people will abandon us and turn away. We don’t want people to think we are weird of different in any way, unless of course we can be weird and different together!

But God has chosen you to belong!

Read Deuteronomy 14:2; John 1:12; Romans 8:15; 2Corinthians 6:18

How does God include you?

If you belong to God and His people, how might other people view you? Does that matter anymore?