If we allow Fear to take control of the driving seat, then can we possibly start to make some bad decisions, such as “I can’t do this, because of …” or even, “I should be doing … because of …”
(There has been times, when I have observed people (myself included) do, or not do something (both large and small), for the… strangest of fearful reasons. 😦 )
If fear stops us from doing, that which is necessary, or pushes us into doing something that we shouldn’t be doing, then how helpful, is that fear?
A healthy fear can protect us, such as a fear of falling over the edge of a cliff, which stops us from going too close to the edge.
But, if fear stops us from walking along the cliffside path, then we’ve completely missed out on the cliffside path walk.
So, a fear is needed, but only a fear, that is kept in it’s proper place and proportion.
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I do feel that this post is kind of finished, but I would like to point out that Love, can prove to be a powerful antidote to fear. I’m thinking that some of the best writing about Love, can be found in the Bible, such as below.
1 Corinthians 13
13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Wannabe Christian Doorman 