Greatest Fears
This Week's Theme: Facing Our Fears
Friday, April 6, 2001
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Key Bible Verses: There is no fear in love. Perfect love drives out fear.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love (1 John 4:18).
Bonus Reading:Isaiah 41:8-16
I wrote my son: Recently, Jess, your Sunday school teacher confided to me that she asked her class to talk about their greatest fears. Yours was riding. You "kinda like it," you told her, "and kinda didn't."
A few days ago, I took you along to gather the cows on Crooked Creek. We saddled Shogun and Rodney and split up for efficiency. You had a hard task following the dim jeep trail winding through the badlands' lunar landscape. And it would be dark soon.
It was six miles from where we split to where we were to meet. You got there before I did, not knowing I'd kept an eye on you intermittently. When you saw me, you came at a gallop with a big smile on your face. As you pulled up next to me, I noticed your eyes were slightly red and swollen. You had cried just a little. I'd told you to pray if you needed help, and I suspect you prayed considerably.
As we walked to the house after dark, you said, "Dad, tomorrow our Sunday school teacher's going to ask us how we're doing with our fears."
"And what are you going to tell her, Jess?"
"I think I'm doing okay."
John L. Moore in Take the Reins
Respond:
You aren't left alone in your fears; you have a heavenly Father who watches over you.
Thought to Apply:
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearnot absence of fear.
Mark Twain (writer, river pilot)
Adapted from: Take the Reins (Nelson, 1997). 1 of 1
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You watch over me, Father. Help me let go of my desire for control and rest in Your goodness.
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