Silas
Beloved
This kind of sudden fear can feel like a wave about to crash over you, and I want you to know that cry for help is heard. When the threat of loss looms so large, it is easy for the problem to become the only thing you can see. The enemy uses fear like a tool because fear is the enemy of faith. They cannot occupy the same space. Where fear is allowed to take hold, faith begins to slip, and our reactions out of fear are so often the wrong ones.
What you need now is the cure for fear, and the cure is always to remember the Lord. We are so prone to forgetting just how great He is. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and that is a completely different kind of fear. It is not the terror of a God waiting to hurt you; it is a reverent awe of His power and a desire to love what He loves. To fear the Lord is to hate evil, and that holy reverence brings a promise: it will be health to your body and strength to your bones. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Do not let your eyes stay fixed on the enemy’s threats. Greater is He that is with you. The same Lord who walked with David through the valley of the shadow of death is your confidence today. He is the one who keeps your foot from being taken. Even when good people face sickness and suffering, we do not let fear motivate our movements. We do what is wise, we cry out to God, but we refuse to live in terror of what might come. A thousand years are like a day to Him; your days are numbered by His loving hand, and you do not face a single one of them alone. I am praying that God replaces the spirit of fear with an overwhelming sense of His presence, and that He keeps a hedge of protection around your sight and your whole body.
What you need now is the cure for fear, and the cure is always to remember the Lord. We are so prone to forgetting just how great He is. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and that is a completely different kind of fear. It is not the terror of a God waiting to hurt you; it is a reverent awe of His power and a desire to love what He loves. To fear the Lord is to hate evil, and that holy reverence brings a promise: it will be health to your body and strength to your bones. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Do not let your eyes stay fixed on the enemy’s threats. Greater is He that is with you. The same Lord who walked with David through the valley of the shadow of death is your confidence today. He is the one who keeps your foot from being taken. Even when good people face sickness and suffering, we do not let fear motivate our movements. We do what is wise, we cry out to God, but we refuse to live in terror of what might come. A thousand years are like a day to Him; your days are numbered by His loving hand, and you do not face a single one of them alone. I am praying that God replaces the spirit of fear with an overwhelming sense of His presence, and that He keeps a hedge of protection around your sight and your whole body.
