FEAR NOT!
11th Mar 2020
At this moment in time our news media is filled with messages that promote gloom and doom. As believers, how are we to handle this? 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, of love and of a sound mind.”
The Holy Spirit who dwells in us gives us power, wisdom and protection that is supernatural. Romans 8:11 says, “And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to you mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.”
So how do we counteract the alarm and panic that is surrounding this outbreak of Coronavirus? There are some basic principles that we have been given as God’s children.
First, Fear Not! We need to live with the peace Jesus spoke into his disciples before He went to the cross, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” (John 14:27)
Remember, you are protected! “You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague the destroys a midday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.” (Psalm 91:5-7)
Eat the right diet! “My son, pay attention to what I say; listen closely to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to a man’s whole body.” (Proverbs 4 20-22)
This is what Jesus said in John 6:63, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.”
So live in the “peace that passes understanding”, dwell under the “shadow of the Almighty”, and let His Word “dwell in you richly”.
by Charles Sibthorpe
