MANY
FEARS ARE BASELESS
Fear is defined as: an unpleasant emotion caused by the
threat of danger, pain, or harm. Some of its common synonyms are : terror, panic, alarm, fright, dread, horror,
phobia, nervousness and timidity.
Fear is omnipresent. You are afraid at many a place ---- at your home of some perceived threat, at your office of some
action against you, in your business of some expected loss, on the road of some accident,
near the river of getting drowned , of a weather condition causing some
dangerous effect , during a journey about losing something, of separation from
some beloved friend or relative and most of all losing your life sooner or
later.
Most of these fears are imaginary. They seldom take place to
destroy your peace of mind or happiness.
If you are law-abiding and afraid of displeasing God, you are
a good deal safe from fears. Laws take care of innocents and God is as gracious
as your father.
Fear makes you weak and cowardly. Fearlessness helps you remain strong and courageous.
Quite a few fears are transitory. They don’t
have a long duration. A large number of them are no worse than phobias and have
no enduring basis.
Here are some important thoughts about fear:
*Fear is
implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other
passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be
suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to
beset life with supernumerary distresses. ----English author Samuel Johnson (1709-84).
** Good men
have the fewest fears. He who fears to do wrong has but one great fear; he has
a thousand who has overcome it. ----American author Christian Nestell Bovee (1820-1904)
.
***It is
only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man. ----
Scottish-American divine John Witherspoon
(1723-94).
****There is
great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. ---Half our fears
are baseless, and the other half discreditable.----Bovee
Finally, this quote: A man who fears
suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
*******
G.R.Kanwal
13th January 2025
No comments:
Post a Comment