Our fears are inversely amplified by our lack of faith.  The strength and depth of faith vanquishes our fears as the abundance of both cannot exist in the same thought.  We can be full of fear or full of faith but not at the same time.

Rational fear has its place; it keeps us safe from known dangers and backs us away from the cliffs edge, life’s fires, floods and mayhem and the many ways to get hurt or even killed.  This form of fear saves our lives and avoids injury and it is not to be confused or interchanged with emotional fear.

“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” W. Clement Stone

More quotes, books, manuscripts, plays, stories and autobiographies exist on the subject of fear than almost any other topic which demonstrates that we all struggle with conquering it, the great and the ordinary.

“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” Samuel Butler.

Emerson tells us, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
 

Dorothy Thomas said, “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”

Walking up to, into and through that which you fear turns terror into exhilaration.

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” Andre Gide.

Truth be told, our own lack of understanding generates our own levels of fear.

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” Christian Nestell Bovee.

It is our choice, our luxury, to be embraced in the arms of God.  His only demand is our faith.  Many of life’s toughest lessons are so hard to learn because their solutions are so straight-forward that we reject them as overly simplistic, given our un-success in figuring things out on our own.  Fear is one of those nemeses that we can conquer with the grace of God.

Armed with this knowledge, you can choose to set yourself free or to live in your fear.  Plato’s words should ring in your ears:

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”