Thoughts for another day

Dec. 18, 2009

Today's verse: Mt. 8:26. Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

The devil has a very powerful tool by which he can control the life of men; that tool is ‘fear’. All he needs to do to destroy men is to put fear in their hearts and in a sense the person is automatically destroyed because fear has this tendency of eating us from inside and tearing us into bits.

Jesus today is asking you, ‘why are you fearful. Don’t you have faith?’ For Jesus does the exact opposite of the devil. He is there to cast away fear and make us live full lives. Therefore, Jesus will always ask you, ‘why do you fear?’ Now fear could be of any type. Any fear for wrongdoing is valid because it is the fear of repercussion or an expected reaction to the wrong that one has done. But that is not the only fear we have experience of. The usual fear is not the fear for having done a wrong; but the fear of something that may happen because of our vulnerability.

Today’s situation in life is pretty complicated. Life poses many challenges and these challenges are rather frightening. Take the issue of raising a family and there’s only one earning member in the family and that member is facing the prospect of losing the job. Then again there are elderly people living alone in their homes for whom every night is a fearful prospect, what with robbers and evil elements prowling around. There are other kinds of fear induced by our actions. Take for example a situation where our children go and fight with children of people who are vicious and known to be bad. The fear will be a fear of repercussion.

No matter what the fear I am to tell both you and me, that Jesus is there. He is available for us at all times of the day or night and He is there to deliver us of any fear that we may have. Jesus is the king of the universe and faith in Him gives us the power to shed our fears and live our lives in wholesomeness. Praise be to Him.