Today let’s talk about fear and the devastating effect it has on people. Fear is the great enemy of man. It paralyzes the mind and results in reactive thinking. Everyone experiences anxiety at some time in their life and that’s to be expected. The fear we speak of is gripping fear, the type of fear that devitalizes us mentally, emotionally and physically. This type of fear robs us of all rationality as it grips our inner being.

Gripping fears steal confidence Gripping fears must be managed or gotten rid of while ordinary cautions that are necessary to intelligent living are maintained on a healthy level. For instance, a person standing on a street corner would naturally exercise the caution of not stepping into moving traffic. But if he/she had such a fear of traffic that he/she could not control an overwhelming urge to run from it, then he/she has a gripping fear of traffic. Sometimes the reasons why are clear and sometimes it takes deep therapy to overcome the fear.

In all cases of fear, there is overwhelming evidence of lack of faith. The Holy Scriptures tell us that we should not fear tomorrow because tomorrow will take care of itself. To fear the future is to have no faith in your ability to face its possibilities; for what is a new dawning but a presentation of new and exciting possibilities?

And turn tomorrow into terror Tomorrow is only another today, as is today and was yesterday and as it shall be throughout all eternity. Your relationship with it is to take advantage of the opportunities afforded you. Opportunity will not come to a person who fears the very dawning of its creation. All opportunity is born in today’s actions which extended into tomorrows successes.

A disturbed mind has no rest, no peace, no vision where derangements become norms and norms become derangements. Confusion clutters the mind and the hours of the day become distasteful and trying. The present day is robbed of all peace and joy, and becomes a torture chamber sandwiched between yesterday and tomorrow. The mind becomes so disturbed restful sleep becomes impossible.

Escape and set yourself free You must live without fear today or you will dread tomorrow, for each day will become as a prison with no chance of escape. Don’t make the mistake of carrying your fears like a smothering blanket that extinguishes the fires of passion. Those who live in the dread of tomorrow generally live in the gripping thoughts of what happened yesterday. You cannot look forward to or live in yesterday. Yesterday is past, a memory of experiences gone. All to often people who are confronted with a bad experience insist on reliving them over and over until they become the fears of tomorrow.

To build on tomorrow Yesterday provides the building blocks for tomorrow and also provides an avenue of escaping the bounds of fear, by replacing it with hope and faith. It is through your past experiences that faith is strengthened to overcome the fears of tomorrow. Eliminating fear brings about a enlighten, buoyant hope of accomplishment and joyful expectation as well as the natural enthusiasm and zest of living. As passion replaces fear, success becomes common practice and the joy life is accomplished.

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