The Struggle with Fear (4)

19 Mar The Struggle with Fear (4)

An old adage says, ‘Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.’

💥It exaggerates the problem, and as a result, you expend valuable energy in ways you shouldn’t.

💥For example, sometimes you avoid things that can’t really harm you at all.

💥Like the man who returned to his holiday cabin from a hike, badly scratched and bruised. 💥’What happened?’ his wife asked.

💥’I met a snake on the trail,’ he answered.

💥’Don’t you remember,’ his wife responded, ‘the park ranger told us yesterday that none of the snakes up here are poisonous?’

💥Her husband replied, ‘They don’t have to be poisonous if they can make you jump off a seven-metre cliff!’ Clearly the man’s fear—not the snake—was the problem.

🎯Charles Spurgeon once said, ‘Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.’

🎯As long as you allow fear to take the wheel, you’ll never go where God wants to take you, or discover and develop the talents He has placed within you.

🎯And here’s the great thing: God will help you to confront and conquer the fears that are controlling you.

🎯David the giant slayer, author of Psalms and Israel’s beloved king, often found himself with his back to the wall.

💥Writing about such an occasion he said, ‘Make haste to help me, O Lord. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me.’

💥David knew who to turn to: ‘The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?’

🎯When God is the source of your strength, you can face your worst fears and overcome them.

– With Bob Gass Ministries