Fear Not
Fear is a creepy thing. It causes us to do things we don’t want to do. Fear puts into a flight or flight mode. When we are afraid, we can become like anxious like David was when he waited for word on Absalom’s fate while he was being pursued by Joab’s troops. Fear led the Pharisee’s to seek an audience with Herod to set a guard around Jesus Tomb following His crucifixion. Although they no longer feared Jesus ability to rally people around Him, they feared that His disciples would steal His body.
The Psalmist said something very profound in Psalm 56:3-4. He said that,
When I am afraid,
I put my trust in you.
4 In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?
There is one adequate to the fears that lurk around us. We are to put our trust in the Lord, the one whom we praise and worship in the beauty of holiness. This Psalm does not tell us that our fears are not real, that we can think them away, or that we are without faith by having them. His analysis is simple. God is bigger than our fears and wherever their sources may be originating from. Let us do as the Psalmist did, and put our trust in Him, allowing Jesus to address our fears for us.
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