Perfect Love Drives Out Fear

The reason that people live in fear is because they are not in right standing with God and they are not obedient to Jesus Christ. I read the words of the apostle John in 1 John 4:16 (NAS)
“God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 19We love, because He first loved us. 20If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.21And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.”
Dear friends, we demonstrate that we love God when we OBEY Him and that is why Jesus said, I read His words in John 14:15.
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
If you love Jesus, you will OBEY Him and then there is no reason for fear, not now and not in the judgment day, because if we obey Jesus, if we do what is pleasing to Him, then we have confidence to come to Him and to pray, whatever our problem is. We can come to Him and we can pray BUT IF WE ARE IN DISOBEDIENCE THEN WE ARE SEPARATED FROM GOD. If we are living in sin, we have got reason to fear! But if we truly love Jesus, we REPENT of sin, we turn away from sin and we obey Jesus, we seek Him with all our heart and then He promises us that He will draw closer to us. We read in John 14:21. (NAS)
"He who has My commandments and KEEPS THEM them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him."
“I will reveal Myself to Him” If we have the words of Jesus, His commandments, and we obey them, then we demonstrate we love Him and then Him and His Father will come and live with us and He will reveal Himself to us. He will give us His Holy Spirit and He will guide us by His Spirit. We come into close communion with Him, we walk with God and then we have got no fear, because we are in a close relationship with the God of the universe.
Dear friend, do you have fear or are you close to Jesus? Is your relationship with Him close? Are you obeying Him? Because if you always do what is pleasing to Him, then you have no reason to fear. When we obey Jesus, our love has become perfect and then that perfect love drives out all fear.
Has your love for Jesus become perfect? Are you living in UTTER obedience to Jesus Christ?

May Jesus bless you.