VIsion and Fear 7
“EACH MORNING and evening for forty days, Goliath took his stand and made his speech.”
Welcome to Leading Right – a presentation of Life Africa. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
After standing unchallenged for forty days, Goliath is confident he has got you. He expects you not only to be terrified but to be totally frightened. Well, that was what happened to the Israeli troops. It probably has happened to you. May be you have allowed fear to take its stand and make its speech for days, weeks and even years.
With your permission, fear gains control of your life. You allow fear stand in the corridor of your heart making a loud boast unchallenged. Morning and evening, he presents a gory sight of your future and challenges you to a fight. In your cowardice, you refuse to talk back. You stand before your fear like a beat up child before a school headmaster. Fear thrives when you give it unfettered room and allow its claim go unchallenged. Each occasion you allow fear to make an unchallenged speech, you willingly hand over the control of your life to fear. And fear is a tax master. Its rule is devastating. Its goal is to kill your dream and to perpetually make you an underling.
Think about it, how long have you feared venturing out of your shell? How long have you watched helplessly as the picture of incapability and failure is presented to you? How long have you been intimidated by the challenges in your marriage or business? As a member of a community or nation, how long have you allowed fear make you believe that change is not possible in your time?
Determine, God helping you, not to feed your fear again. Instead starve it of your attention and contemplation. Refuse to allow fear grip your heart and mind. It is your call.
Now, this is not to say you can prevent fear all together. To be sure, each of us needs a measure of fear to jolt us out of complacency and inaction. The fear you should detest is that cringing and crippling fear that paints an unattractive future for you and your community and leaves you no hope of change. As detestable as this fear is, you cannot prevent it from confronting you. But this much you can do: you can prevent it from presenting itself to you unchallenged day and night for several days. Like a bird, you cannot prevent it from flying over your head, but you can prevent it from building a nest on your head.
Welcome to Leading Right – a presentation of Life Africa. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
After standing unchallenged for forty days, Goliath is confident he has got you. He expects you not only to be terrified but to be totally frightened. Well, that was what happened to the Israeli troops. It probably has happened to you. May be you have allowed fear to take its stand and make its speech for days, weeks and even years.
With your permission, fear gains control of your life. You allow fear stand in the corridor of your heart making a loud boast unchallenged. Morning and evening, he presents a gory sight of your future and challenges you to a fight. In your cowardice, you refuse to talk back. You stand before your fear like a beat up child before a school headmaster. Fear thrives when you give it unfettered room and allow its claim go unchallenged. Each occasion you allow fear to make an unchallenged speech, you willingly hand over the control of your life to fear. And fear is a tax master. Its rule is devastating. Its goal is to kill your dream and to perpetually make you an underling.
Think about it, how long have you feared venturing out of your shell? How long have you watched helplessly as the picture of incapability and failure is presented to you? How long have you been intimidated by the challenges in your marriage or business? As a member of a community or nation, how long have you allowed fear make you believe that change is not possible in your time?
Determine, God helping you, not to feed your fear again. Instead starve it of your attention and contemplation. Refuse to allow fear grip your heart and mind. It is your call.
Now, this is not to say you can prevent fear all together. To be sure, each of us needs a measure of fear to jolt us out of complacency and inaction. The fear you should detest is that cringing and crippling fear that paints an unattractive future for you and your community and leaves you no hope of change. As detestable as this fear is, you cannot prevent it from confronting you. But this much you can do: you can prevent it from presenting itself to you unchallenged day and night for several days. Like a bird, you cannot prevent it from flying over your head, but you can prevent it from building a nest on your head.
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