Do Not Be Afraid

Let me give you a saying that I really love;

“The sentence ‘Do not be afraid’ appears 365 time in the Bible: enough assurance from the LORD that everyday of the year we can out put our trust I Him.”

What Are Your Fears Keeping You From Doing?

This is a blog of John Maxwell that I’ve read just early this evening. As I was reading, I can fully relate myself for I, even though some people don’t see that I fear some things in life, fear too. He stated some actions that are probably effective to weaken our hidden fears.

The first action that he mentioned is to know where our fears come from. On his blog he said that our fears come from our anticipation of evil. We worry about the things that will happen in our future. We fear how our life will be if evil broke abruptly. As for me, I think that my fears also come from my anticipation of my future, how will it be if something bad might happen.

His second action is to admit our fears. It is not wrong to reveal our fears for it is normal. He also said that our courage is our resistance to fear, a mastery of it and not the absence of it. Once we confess our worrisome fears, we overcome the facts that make us bother.

The third action he stated is to accept the brevity and frailty of life. We have to agree with what life says to us, that it is not always sunny. There will also be rainy days; we are going to be on our knees with the hardship the life brings us. But this doesn’t mean we’re going to give up with life, the situation builds us stronger to face another circumstance that lie ahead.

The fourth action is to accept the fear as a price of progress. In any fields of our life, we cannot achieve success without getting frightened and taking risks. Risks help us trust life, others, and of course, our self. When we take risks and we failed, we should always try anew and this time make things right. Success that is achieved without extra effort makes us feel a little not satisfied. It only means that effort brings us happiness when we reach the top.

His fifth action is to develop a burning desire to overcome fear. Once we set our goals in life, we do everything for this and try to focus only with it. We put out minds with the aspiration of winning or accomplish it. We eventually forget that we have already overcame the fears that we once worried about.

The sixth action which I recognize as a very true statement is to focus on what you can control. We cannot deny the fact that we are all going to die, we are all getting old, and we are all having our own families. These facts are all consistent and we cannot avoid it to happen. We have to fix to our minds to the thought that we have to control only the things that we can manage.

The seventh action is to focus on today, not yesterday, not tomorrow. The things we have done in the past cannot be modified already, simultaneously, we cannot control what could happen in the mere future. Today is given by God for His people to be good to ourselves and to our fellow humans. It is given to us to have a chance to correct what mistake we might have done in our yesterday. Never fear about yesterday for it had already happened, so as with future for it has not yet come.

His eighth action is to put some wins under your belt. We must know that fears come one by one in our life. The more we face fears, the more we feel that we are capable of handling it. In that way we are more willing to face them.

And last but not the least is to do it now, not tomorrow, not next week, but NOW. There is no other perfect time to start something than doing it now. The more we set aside fear, the more we give concern about it. Just go with the flow, have a thinking of what they say, ‘come what may’.