The Springhead

Fear is the anticipation of something harmful. It’s a yellow traffic light. It’s blue and red blinking lights, with sirens blaring. Fear is an “influencer”. It gains followers and it adds friends. It speaks to you with words that are relatable- because those words always come from your past. Fear is the experience that you know can happen, because it has happened, even if it hasn’t happened to you , yet. The words “fear not” are used at least eighty times in the Bible. Humanity has always known fear. Humanity will always know fear . There will always be some things that hurt us. There will always be some things that can go wrong. Storms come, but m oney does not. Health falters, and families can fall apart. Humanity has always known fear. Humanity will always know fear -unless humanity comes to accept God’s promise s . We are transient beings, too often, putting trust in transient things. God is eternal and He says fear not. Isaiah 43:1 “Don’t fear,...

In the things we choose to surround us.   In things that are outside of us; we often seek the beautiful.  We value it. We cherish it. We try to emulate it.  In beauty we see all things good. Imperfection is a loss of opportunity. “It” could have been better. We see imperfection as a mistake. She/He should have done this or that instead. We see imperfection as a failure. It is wrong. It has no value. Let’s throw it out. We see the imperfections in ourselves the same way. ...but God made us in his image. (Genesis 1:27) “ So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” ... and like the psalmist we can say (Psalm 139: 18 ) “ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” We struggle to find the good in what we call our imperfections. We can cherish our objects far more than ourselves. We can cherish our cell phones more than ourselves! When we do, so often then, our d...