I encourage you to share your fears with others. Pull back the curtains. Expose your fears, each and every one. Like vampires, they can't stand the sunlight. Financial fears, relationship fears, professional fears, safety fears - call them out in prayer. Drag them out by the hand of your mind, and make them stand before God and take their comeuppance!!
Jesus made his fears public. He "offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death" (Heb 5:7). He prayed loudly enough to be heard and recorded, and he begged his community of friends to pray with him.
His prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane becomes, for Christians, a picture of the church in action - a place where fears can be verbalized, pronounced, stripped down, and denounced; an escape from the wordless darkness of suppressed frights. A healthy church is where our fears go to die. We pierce them through with Scripture, psalms of celebration and lament. We melt them in the sunlight of confession. We extinguish them with the waterfall of worship, choosing to gaze at God, not our dreads.
Verbalize your angst to a trusted circle of God-seekers. The big deal (and good news) is this: you needn't live alone with your fear.
By: Max Lucado
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