Why Do People Fear Things?
Posted by admin on June 25th, 2008 filed in Christian Lifestyle, Gifts of God, LoveIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Fear is a big thing. These days it seems like people are afraid of more and more things. Afraid of losing a job, getting hurt (physically or emotionally), being rejected, and what seems like an ever growing list of “Phobias” in which people are afraid or even panicked by everything from heights and confined spaces to germs, dirt and crowds or gatherings of people.
The news doesn’t help matters because they’re always much quicker to broadcast things from a sensationalist point of view in which the worst possible aspect of something is presented as if it were the only aspect.
The sad thing is that fear, as in terror and dreading anticipation of an evil outcome, is not a state that God wants us in. As a matter of fact, if you look through the Bible you will find over 80 times when God is telling people things like “fear not”, “have no fear”, “be not afraid”. Jesus even specifically commanded us not to fear, but to love:
John 13:34, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
The Bible shows that Fear is the opposite of Love:
1 John 4:18, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
Don’t let that word “perfect” scare you. It’s translated from the Greek teleios {pronounced tel’-i-os} [Strongs number 5046] and means brought to its end, finished, wanting nothing necessary to completeness, perfect
This word is talking more about something being complete and in it’s finished form or mature. If you look at this verse again with this in mind, “but mature, complete love casteth out fear”.
The key of course, is in our own choices. All of God’s gifts are right there waiting for us to make the choice to accept both Him and His gifts. The biggest of those gifts is love. If we choose to accept His love then we can lay our fears at the foot of the cross and instead of living in fear, we can live in peace knowing that God really does love us.
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June 26th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Cool dude ! I wish that more people could feel secure and know God’s true love. The world has a crooked version that it sees and won’t look at love from His Point of view.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 am
That’s because so many people are so busy listening to all the negativity that the Enemy is putting out that they have a hard time hearing God