I Will Not Fear | Psalm 3

Have you ever entered a building after dark? In dark church buildings, when all alone, the noises, squeaks and creaks echo into the once fearless heart. Oh, it simply sends chills up my spine to spend time in a darkened church building, all alone. Fear has forced me to leave too quickly on several occasions—before my work was finished.

The emotion of fear holds powerful sway over the human soul. It is crippling. The most physical elite can change to mush in the face of paralyzing terror. Fear can mute an otherwise prolific tongue. It has its ways of bringing progress to a halt.

With God we have no need to allow fear to knock us off track. We can continue with our life, even the simple things that fear often disorientates, like sleep. Through a real and present danger David writes, “I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me. I will not fear…”

God wants us to continue. He wants us to trudge ahead and so he offers us a reason not to fear—his sustaining presence and power. The very acknowledgement of God’s desire should cast away the fear that can often place a choke-hold on our humanity.

Now, I still don’t like to venture into a church building shrouded in shadow. But that’s really not what this is about. God wants to rid those fears that come about through anxiety, personal enemies, doubt, insecurities and worry—those sources of fear that we can’t see and touch, that can’t hide in a dark corner of a hallway. Will you let him enter your heart and drive out those monsters? Say it. I will not fear…