Live in faith or Live in Fear

The opposite of Faith is fear. The more faith we have, the less fear we have in us. Human beings have two choices either to live in Faith or live in fear. Faith and fear are opposites on a continuum from life to death. Where there is fear there is no trust or lack of trust in God. Fear does not believe in the promises of God. If you do not believe in the promises of God, you do not believe that God is God. Faith is an act of man that places his trust in God. We cannot trust an idea. We cannot trust a thing. We can only trust a person. Faith is the act of trust in the person of God. Fear is lack of trust. The symptoms of fear are everywhere; anxiety, anger, addiction, hedonism, selfishness, neurosis, mental illness, broken hearts, broken minds, broken lives.  Since the dawn of time man lived in fear. His life is fear. There is fear in all of us. Fear of the unknown; we do no know the future so we fear it. Fear of suffering; we can’t or don’t want pain or trouble in our lives. Fear of not being loved or accepted. Fear of failure. Fear of death. Because we fear we reject. We reject God. Fear is a coward. When we seek our point of view, our dominance, our worldly power to our own ends we are really cowards. When we trample on people, we are cowards. We are cowards because we are full of fear. We were born not to fear but to have faith. We were created to be faithful not fearful.  Fear is childish and self centred. Fear is immaturity; it means we have never grown up. Faith is the opposite. Faith is maturity. Fear says crawl on the ground and eat dust from the earth. Faith says stand up and walk you are divine, you are a child of God.  Fear says let the troubles, the struggles and suffering of this world get you down. Faith says embrace the troubles, struggles and suffering and change yourself, change this world. Faith is the antidote to the problems of this world.