What Calms Our Fears?

Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 

Luke 12:32 

What calms our fears? We have been considering what causes our fears for the past two days. What are the things that allay our fears? One of the primary fear destroyers is the word of Christ Himself. In the passage from which our text derives He tells us not to fear on multiple occasions. He cites all the things which would cause us to fear and then gives us abundant reasons as to why we should not fear. These reasons come directly from His mouth, therefore they carry abundant weight. God is God and Christ is God, therefore what we hear from Christ, we hear from God. All the promises of God are, in Christ, unassailable or ‘yea and amen,’ as the older translations put it. If Christ has said He will deal with all the causes for our fears, we can have fearlessness and confidence. What we can never achieve of courage, valor, and strength, we can because we rely upon the bare word of the Living Christ. His word has been good, is good, and shall be good for time and for eternity. Therefore, ‘fear not, little flock.’  

Our Great God and our Savior, 
we rejoice that You are the remedy for all our fears. 
We praise You that You encourage us 
as no one else can.  

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning