Reflections

Getting rid of fear

The very first word of the Gospel was the voice of the angel saying 'fear not' and the very first words of Jesus after His resurrection was, 'Have no fear' . Between the the first word and the last the constant concern of Jesus was to help men and women find release from fear.

Fear has three things against it:1. it produces sickness and disease

2.it paralyses human effort 3. It is counterproductive.We are made in our physical and mental make-up for Faith and confidence, faith builds us up but fear breaks us down.When God made us in the beginning, He designed us to function in accordance with love, so that when love motivates our being our bodies function in line with its destiny. When we try to make it run on any other ingredient, then it will refuse to function- and rebel. Love deprived children grow up to be extremely fearful, because when love flows out fear flows in.

How can we reduce fear to the right proportion and place this dreaded enemy of mankind to its right perspective? There is only one way. We reduce it to its proper size when we set it against the goodness and Greatness of our loving God. Set against His Almightiness every fear is brought into perspective and shown to be the evil it is. When love flows in, fear flows out. Take a fresh look at God's unending love for you as He demonstrasted at Calvary, and in the knowledge that He did all this for you, watch all your fears melt away.