3 Faces of Fear

The Adversary

If you do not have enough food, hunger is all about starvation. If you do have enough food, hunger is the gentle reminder that you need to eat.

Once we realize that we are loved and we are capable, fear is just a daily reminder that courage is necessary.

When we become crippled by fear, the friend has his way. When we become obsessed with it, the teacher has his way.

In the end, fear is an adversary. I John says ‘perfect love casts out fear’. Although the beginning of wisdom is fear, the end of wisdom is the daily overcoming of it.

I don’t know about you, but I am so tired of being afraid. I am tired of the mastery fear has in my life. My friend and teacher has too often become my King. Fear is not meant to be a Lord but a servant.

We defeat this adversary but putting it in its proper place, understanding the full scope of fear, and accepting that it is a complicated means to an end and a very unworthy end in and of itself.