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Fear is a very natural response to danger. Any time we walk into the unknown fear is an immediate and necessary companion. All our senses are put on the alert and we can function better. Fear becomes disabling when it takes charge of our life rather than being a good servant - just as any emotion. It is always sad to see persons "afraid of the night" or afraid of a stranger or even afraid to living and dying. One of the promises of Scripture is to see fear cast out be perfect love.
Often we assume this means that if we can only love enough we will be able to overcome the fears of our life. There is truth in that understanding. But is there not even more truth in the understanding that here the good news is not how much we love, but how much God loves. To realize that we are the eternal objects of God's redeeming love is to put a totally different perspective on fear - and all of its disabling \power. When we know ourselves to be loved, life, death, the night, the stranger no longer have a first fear effect upon us. Instead we can say with the Psalmist, "I will not be afraid, for thou art with me." Amen.
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