The mind of man is made up of the intellect, will, and
emotions. And when it comes to reaching your full potentials you need the
stability of emotions more than anything else. Satan understands this clearly
and that is why his greatest weapon is to attack your emotions with fear. And
as long as your emotions are distorted with fear, it will constantly affect
your sense of judgment.
The Bible says, ‘God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, of love and of a sound mind’ (2 Tim 1;7). Therefore, we have a choice to
resist fear with the capacity of God in us. No matter how dangerous, imminent
and uncertain a situation may look, with a fearless mind we can say what we
want rather than what we feel. A wise man said to me recently saying, ‘Do the
things you fear and the death of fear is certain’. We walk by faith and not by
sight.
We cannot do much with ourselves if we keep responding in
fear to every instance of danger or discomfort. Fear torments. It erodes our self-esteem.
It exaggerates issues and distorts good sense of reasoning. But true faith in Christ
generates uncommon capacity to dare the ‘undare-able’ and do the impossible.
People, companies and governments spend millions each year
trying to buy confidence through feedbacks and peoples opinion. And in most
cases what they receive as feedbacks are negative. People are easy to tell you that
one thing you’re doing wrong while ignoring the many things you did right. They
would tell you how things are and not how it could be.
We live in a fast changing world where almost nothing is
certain. And in order to avoid the pains of loss and disappointments, we tend
to become over- careful. But this would not be necessary if you build a strong
confidence in God through knowledge.
Fear simply uses the weapon of uncertainty to unsettle its
victims but God uses the infallibility of His thoughts to guarantee the
believer’s future (Jeremiah 29:11). Therefore a sound and productive mind is bold, courageous
and strong. Joshua was insecure but when he developed a fearless mentality, he
took territories that even his mentor was not qualified to take.( Joshua 1;7).
Therefore to develop a sound mind, train your mind to be
fearless. Remember, when you do the things you fear, and the death of fear is guaranteed.
Success!
