What Do You Fear?

In the ancient world it was a common practice to fear the natural forces (such as floods, droughts, crop failures, plagues, etc.) that were out of their control and occurred in the world around them. So focused were many of these cultures on the devastation and disaster these natural forces could wreak that they literally gave these forces personalities and worshipped them as their gods.

Yet God wanted His people Israel to not fear these forces, and definitely not to appease them by worshipping them. Rather He continually challenged Israel to focus and trust in Him as their ultimate protector and warrior. To the greatness Yahweh the Bible presents these natural forces as subservient to God and as powerless as attendants who walked before and after a great ruler in the ancient world proclaiming that ruler’s supreme greatness. This is the picture that Habakkuk paints as he states in Habakkuk 3:5 “Before Him goes pestilence, and plague comes after Him.”  The response to such a realization is highlighted by the Psalmist in Psalm 91—

“For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper, and from the deadly pestilence” (v. 3)

“You will not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arrow that flies by day; of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, or of the destruction that lays waste at noon” (v. 5-6)

So, what fear has gripped your heart and imagination? Is it a sickness that has stalked your family for generations? Is it that a threat might come to past? Whatever your fear might be remember that it too must bow before the God who reigns supreme. Won’t you cast your care upon Him today because He cares about you (1 Peter 5:7)?

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