Psalms 56:4

 "In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my ^atrust; I will not ^bfear what flesh can do unto me."

I was thinking the other night about all the madness in the world. The bombings, the shootings, etc. I keep seeing people say how scared they are now because of how far gone this world is. But when I think about it, we were told in the scriptures to fear God, not man. What are we doing? We're fearing man rather than trusting in God. In the Bible Dictionary under fear it says, "Sin destroys that feeling of confidence God’s child should feel in a loving Father and produces instead a feeling of shame and guilt. Ever since the Fall God has been teaching men not to fear, but with penitence to ask forgiveness in full confidence of receiving it." While the focus of that is on sinning, I think it applies to more than that. I think in general fearing anything causes us to lose confidence in our Heavenly Father's plan. Sure, all the stuff that's been going on is scary and I understand how none of us want that to happen to us and we feel bad for those affected by it. However, I don't think we need to dwell on it and be afraid of living life. Whatever happens happens. As long as we trust in God and are living righteously we'll be okay. So in my mind that means there is no reason to fear. We just need to have faith. Unfortunately, things are only going to get worse. Worrying about what's happened won't help us progress, fear will only hold us back.

I didn't explain that as well as I wanted to but it was hard to translate my thoughts. Oh well, I hope it made sense. If not, it makes sense to me!