February 1, 2007

• LOVE vs FEAR (some thoughts of mine and some borrowed from Jay E. Adams)

  
  

       Love looks for opportunities to give;  It asks: “What can I do to help?”  Fear keeps a wary eye on possible consequences and asks:  “What will happen?”  Love “thinks no evil”; fear thinks of little else.  Love is so busy “doing” that it has no time to worry about tomorrow.  Because fear focuses upon tomorrow, fear is paralyzing and accomplishes nothing.  Love leads to greater and greater love and devotion.  Fear, in turn, begets greater fear…..  Love is self-giving; fear is self-protecting.   Loves moves me towards others; fear shrinks away from them.  The enemy of fear is love; the way to put off fear is to put on love.  Love is mightier than fear.  Love produces confidence.  Confidence is a great reward!   I like confidence… I want it!    May you all grow in love this very day……and therefore get confidence!    (thoughts day after tax preparations)

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