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Why Are You Waiting?
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
sound mind-self-control
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
1:6-14 God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of power, of courage and resolution, to meet difficulties and dangers; the spirit of love to him, which will carry us through opposition.
And the spirit of a sound mind, quietness of mind.
The Holy Spirit is not the author of a timid or cowardly disposition, or of slavish fears.
We are likely to bear afflictions well, when we have strength and power from God to enable us For God hath not given us the spirit of fear.—Or
better, perhaps, the spirit of cowardice—that cowardice which manifests itself by a timidity and shrinking in the daily difficulties which the Christian meets with in the warfare for the kingdom of God.to bear them.
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
—Nelson Mandela
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