God will not force us to obedience. We must submit willingly and deliberately place ourselves under His authority.
The devil would tempt us to resist God, to willfully seek our independence and control of our own lives. This is idolatry - placing someone/something else in the place of God and responding to it and or him as God. In this case, we become our own idol.
Perfect love dispenses with the fear that God wants to hurt us or trick us or abandon us and instead allows us to come close to Him, close enough to feel His heartbeat and respond to the things that move Him.
From the crook of His arm, perhaps for the first time, we gain His perspective on the world but we are not overcome because we see it from the protection and comfort of His embrace. In time, if not at once, our eyes will light upon someone or something from which we cannot turn away and He will confirm, "I am sending you for this." As we begin to move forward we do not fear for the one we move away from we also move with and behind simultaneously.
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