Fear is not okay. It isn’t to be tolerated or accepted. It is like a warning light on the dashboard. If left unaddressed it results in poor decisions and a chronically unstable and unhappy personality. See the list below.
Happy people with a general happy outlook on life have fewer problems and create fewer problems. Let me know if you agree or disagree and give me some fear-related results I may have missed.
Fear can lead to:
Abortion
Academic Failure
Alcoholism
Bullying
Cheating
Codependency
Crime
Drug Abuse
Eating Disorders
Hypochondria
Impulsivity
Ignorance
Intimidation
Lying
Manipulating Others
Mass Formation Psychosis
Mental Illness
Murder
Panic Attacks
Physical Illness
Pornography
Poverty
Promiscuity
Racism
Rage
Shame
Shyness
Slavery
Suicide
Theft
Unemployment
War
But it doesn’t have to. . .
…for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV)
Some spiders are pretty cute, actually.
If fear was removed from our senses......what sense would take it's place ? I wonder if there is one.
I reflect how fearful thoughts are my answer to what the future holds. Yes...... the future span of less than 60 seconds but are completely consuming none the less. My instinctual reaction rules the day.
I rejoice in times when I rejected my instinct to flee and cover. My fear was ultimately just a rusty hinge retarding the door to be opened. Yes....I have lessons learned from pushing open the door and experiencing what lay beyond. I wish I had pushed harder, earlier.
Replace fear with confidence. Now comes the hard part.
This particular verse had a very big impact on my life. For the longest time I didn't realize that shyness was focusing on oneself. After reading this verse , I realized where fear really comes from. It helped me to turn to the Lord and rest in Him.