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What you are afraid of is also afraid of you…..

by ETURUVIE EREBOR
04/10/14
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Fear has held many bound in one spot for too long; they fail to move even when they know that they should, because of fear; it paralyses them and keeps them rooted to the spot. However, the truth is what you are afraid of is also afraid of you. It fears the potential buried deep inside of you; it fears what you can achieve when you set your mind to it.

Fear is a robber of dreams and visions; fear is also a robber of life. So many people die, when they should live, because of fear. I remember a story I heard some time ago; a farmer was working on his farm one day when he saw death go by, he called out and asked, “Why are you here?” Death responded, “I am on my way to the city to take one person.” On getting home later that evening, the farmer heard that three people had died in the city and he wondered if perhaps death had told him a lie. Many days later, the farmer was working on his farm and he saw death go by and he called out and asked, “Why did you lie to me the other day? You said you were going to take one person but it turns out you took three people.” Death responded and said “I did not lie to you, I did take one person; fear took the other two.”

The children of Israel are a good example of what I am talking about. They were told prior to leaving Egypt that God had a land for them, a land flowing with milk and honey and this excited them, however, when the time came to possess the land, fear stopped them. Moses sent out spies to view the land and ten out of twelve returned with a negative report, a report that put fear in the hearts of the people and caused them to seek to return to slavery instead of going forward into the land God had promised. The interesting thing is that if you carrying on reading that story you will get to a point where two spies are sent out (this time by Joshua) to view the land and upon their arrival, they enter into a conversation with Rahab the harlot who hid them in her house; here you will learn that all the time the children of Israel were afraid of confronting the opposition, Jericho, the people of Jericho were also afraid of being confronted by the children of Israel.

What is it that you are afraid of? Whatever you fear also fears you, so ignore the fear and reach for your dream.

Eturuvie Erebor.

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