Faithing Down Your Fears

5 Wholehearted Fear The best biblical word to describe the fruit of faithing fear (eulabeia) is wholeheartedness. Just as felicitous is one description of our faithing fear, so is wholeheartedness. This level of commitment is a very important concept in the Bible. In fact, it is the word that describes the “normal Christian life,” as Watchman Nee expressed it. This level of spiritual living is what Jesus called the “abundant life” (John 10:10). Anything and everything less is abnormal, sub-normal, a spiritual anomaly. But the abnormal has become the new normal. As a result, millions of believers who have experienced eternal life are not enjoying the abundant life that Jesus made available to them through His life, death, resurrection, ascension, and bestowment of the Holy Spirit.

This level of total commitment is often expressed or implied in the Bible in opposition to half-heartedness. Sadly, it is a spiritual wilderness where so many of God’s people eke out their lives in miserable discontent, just like the children of Israel experienced for 40 years. According to the Bible, this kind of half-hearted commitment is an abnormal spiritual existence between the extremes of no commitment and total commitment. It kept a whole generation of Israelites from entering the Promised Land. It still does the same today, which is why most Christians half-heartedly live out their spiritual lives in the wilderness. It is a carnal halfway 35