"All fear is but the notion that the love of God ends."

I've been wrestling a lot lately with fear,
with the fact that I feel like my life and day-to-day decisions are so often driven by my fears- and they are many. 
so, i've been asking myself: really, what am i so afraid of? 
        what does it mean to be free in Christ and to live fearlessly in a fallen world?
    what does it mean to fear God more than the world?


i don't have answers. and i think right now, maybe I'm just afraid of that. 


but i've fallen asleep every night this week with these words on repeat:
"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?.. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."


and His love casts out fear.