April 23
Fear can be paralyzing. Unless you have been in its grip, it will be difficult for you to imagine the magnitude of that assertion. Until you have felt yourself virtually strangled by its tentacles, you cannot appreciate the devastation it can wreak in a life.
There are many among us who have restricted themselves from ever traveling beyond a limited radius of their own homes because they are afraid of flying, or of driving on major highways. There are those among us who have tantamount to imprisoned themselves in their homes because they cannot face the outside world.
Even believers in Christ deny themselves the peace He promises to provide by neglecting to appropriate the serenity of spirit that His presence in their lives can afford to them. They continue to grapple with the unseen cobwebs of fear within their minds that hold them captive to irrational worry and its negative mindset.
This is not what the Lord would have for any believer in Christ. His peace that calms all fear and dispels anxiety is to be the portion of those who trust in Him. As Psalm 27:1 states so tenderly, “The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?” The answer? Fear nothing! Fear no one!
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