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The Fear (3)
'...The word of the Lord came to Abram ... saying, "Do not be afraid'...' Genesis 15:1
Researchers have found that about forty percent of the things we worry about never happen. Thirty percent are in the past and can't be helped. Twelve percent involve the affairs of others that are not even our business. Ten percent relate to sickness, real or imagined. That means only eight percent of the things we worry about are even likely to happen!
Mark Twain once said, 'I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.' A survey recently discovered the fear of spiders (arachnophobia) to be the biggest phobia among young people. Fear of needles (trypanophobia) was second, with fear of clowns (coulrophobia) third and fear of flying (aerophobia) fourth.
But most fears are completely irrational: you would have to fly every day for nineteen thousand years before reaching the probability of being killed in a plane crash, for example.
In Matthew 6:25-26 Jesus tells us '...not to worry about everyday life-whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn't life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you far more valuable to Him than they are?' (NLT).
written by Bob Gass
'...The word of the Lord came to Abram ... saying, "Do not be afraid'...' Genesis 15:1
Researchers have found that about forty percent of the things we worry about never happen. Thirty percent are in the past and can't be helped. Twelve percent involve the affairs of others that are not even our business. Ten percent relate to sickness, real or imagined. That means only eight percent of the things we worry about are even likely to happen!
Mark Twain once said, 'I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.' A survey recently discovered the fear of spiders (arachnophobia) to be the biggest phobia among young people. Fear of needles (trypanophobia) was second, with fear of clowns (coulrophobia) third and fear of flying (aerophobia) fourth.
But most fears are completely irrational: you would have to fly every day for nineteen thousand years before reaching the probability of being killed in a plane crash, for example.
In Matthew 6:25-26 Jesus tells us '...not to worry about everyday life-whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn't life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you far more valuable to Him than they are?' (NLT).
written by Bob Gass
