Living in Fear
By Jack Nester, Jr.

Fear is alarm or agitation caused by expectation or realization of danger. This includes fright, terror and being scared or living in dread.

What I have described is what millions of Americans live in each day based on the worldly circumstances. When you realize that what David said in Psalm 24:1-2 is true world conditions will not bother you. "The earth is the Lord's and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas and established it on the waters."

It is amazing that people who profess to be Christians have as many or more fears than the worldly people who profess nothing and depend on science and themselves.

Everything is indeed going God's way even if we can't see it. II Timothy 1:7 says, "For God has not given me a spirit of fear but of power, love and sound mind." Inner fear comes from hopelessness which is a lack of trust in and commitment to the Lord Jesus.

The world will not get any better unless we (Christians) do something about it … by changing it! (THERE'S THAT WORD … CHANGE.) It can only be done in the supernatural power of God not merely by carnal, earthly natural abilities.

Whether you believe it or not, the battleground is the mind. Many people cannot think for themselves and others do no think for themselves … they depend on friends, neighbors, the government (which was never intended to take care of people and make them dependent which it does today … always with strings of control attached).

Communications and new media of all kinds are feeding people fear by the word and paragraph, spoon feeding it into lives. The result is hopelessness, fear, disbelief in God's Word and ability to perform His promises. Further, most give slanted, perverted perspective hunting for sensationalism not truth.

2009 will be no different in that the media will continue to be negative seeking and suggesting gloom and doom as the voice of fear. Don't listen to them unless they are reporting on Biblical prophecy (i.e. what the world wants Israel to do as compared to what the Bible says or upheavals of nature or acts of ungodliness). Live in the Lord. That's something to think about.