I’ve been a fan of Max Lucado’s books for a while now, so when I had the chance to read and review his newest one I jumped at it. You don’t realize how many different emotions are connected to fear. This book has helped me see where my fear was and rail against it. Lucado is right on time with some terrific encouragements for out lives today.
They’re talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flareups
in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the
housing market, upswings in global warming, breakouts of al Qaeda
cells. Some demented dictator is collecting nuclear warheads the way
others collect fine wines. A strain of swine flu is crossing the border.
The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror. News
programs disgorge enough hand-wringing information to warrant an
advisory: “Caution: this news report is best viewed in the confines of an
underground vault in Iceland.”
It’s everywhere, this uncertainty of what is going to happen with the world around us, and more importantly, with us. Our enemy knows that fear and uncertainty can cause us to stop trusting God with everything and start trying to do things on our own. We cannot handle this on our own.
“What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?”
Instead of making a run on the bank or screaming at our neighbors at town hall meetings about health care, we should focus on God’s will for our lives. If we could only remember that God has everything under control then I think we can live the life we imagine, the life that is meant for us by the One that created us, a life without fear!
