The Antidote to FEAR #2

Fear

“Natural emotional response to a perceived threat to one’s security or general welfare."

It can be useful emotion when it leads to appropriate caution or measures that wold guard one’s welfare.

It can protect your life.

In the other hand it can, fear can be a hindrance to the enjoyment of life if it’s induced to delusion or if it’s persist and over powers other more positive emotions such as love and joy, perhaps leading to an inability to engage in the normal activities of life.

Reactions produced by fear

It can paralise you, make you back off, shaking, trembling , it can control your, action and feelings.

Fear is contagious.

You too are carrying something in you that can be contagious.

For Some people might be fear. They spread fear where ever they go.

But you can spread faith, hope, Love…

Fear can make you Hide

Genesis 3:10 ESV

10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

The first emotion explicitly referred to Adam and Eve’s fear of God after they eat the forbidden fruit.

Fear is quite naturally the logical consequence of sin.

My kids when they do something wrong they change,

My dog when he does something wrong they change ,

In the parable of the talent Jesus told of a man whose fear prevented him from doing his reasonable duty.

Matthew 25:25 ESV

25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’

Fear can make you pray

Genesis 32:11 ESV

11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.

Gen 32:11

Fear can make you closer to God

Matthew 10:28 ESV

28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:26–28 ESV

26 “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 27 What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. 28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:26

Jesus taught that we should fear Him.

Jesus taught that we should fear Him.

The antidote to such fear is the conviction that God is able to protect and to accomplish His will and that His promises cam be trusted.

Mattew 10:28

i love the story of the prophet Elisha

2 Kings 6:15–17 ESV

15 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” 16 He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 17 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.