Friday, February 14, 2014

Of Faith and Fear

"This is the victory that overcmeth the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4)

No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth. We are taught by the Holy Spirit in scriptures of truth that fear is a kind of prison for the mind and that by it we my spend a lifetime in bondage.

To recoil from the approach of mental or physical pain in natural, but to allow our minds to become terrorized is quite another thing. The first is a reflex action; the latter is the result of sin and is a work of the devil to bring us into bondage. Terror is or should be foreign to the redeemed mind.

True faith delivers from fear by consciously interposing God between it and the object that would make it afraid. The soul that lives in God is surrounded by the divine Presence so that no enemy can approach it without first disposing of God, a palpable impossibility.

This is the victory that overcometh low spirits, a sinking heart, whispers of the devil and all the discouragements of this lower world - even our faith.

~A. W. Tozer~

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