Here's my early-birthing take on fear: My blinding flash of the obvious re fear was that fear is God in camouflage. I wholly accepted that since I know that nothing turns me to God faster than my fear.
I have mind-wrestled with that...a lot. As in, if that be true, God, whether in camouflage or not, will...must...remove that which I fear. But, no...that is the reasoning mind staking its claim...the trouble is, it makes sense.
It's a slow walk that gets us to acceptance of the pitiful fact that common sense turns us away from spiritual growth (risk) in order to stay stuck in egoic stagnation (security).
I choose to believe that fear is our inside response (our quivering heart) to which God alone is the panacea. What we are fearing outside (from financial ruin to crucifixion) is not removed since our personal world, indeed, must be walked through. Remember the words from the Sermon, every jot and tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.
Our material world is ours to overcome...face it, to make peace with. How else do we get to God? How else can our inside fear be transmuted? God-spirit is ours even as our fear appears, and we walk through the appearance into our Father's arms.
Underneath are the everlasting arms. - Deuteronomy 33:27
Thank you.
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