In the Bedroom after the War
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April 20, 2009
What is that so distressful? Ivan 'Vern' Poh from URL @ 1:06 PM Matthew 6:22-27 25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? Fear = A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. I am very intrigued by this feeling we feel sometimes. It has aroused my curiousity and i was determined to find out more. We read that fear is the absence of faith. Fear and Faith cannot co-exist in our hearts. That is very true. However, vice versa, i personally don't think faith is the absence of fear. So though it is generally true, the famous saying, fear is the absence of faith, if we look at it closely it may mean a whole lot of difference. Roosevelt (FDR) famous speech - "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" is amazing. It changed the world. I've read that line many times but only recently did it leave an impact on me. It is true that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. They say fears are imagined. Sometimes it can get quite irrational. Though i still think fear can be really real, i have read again and again that 90% of the fears we experienced are imagined. Faith is illogical. Then i also do think that Fear is illogical since they are the 2 extremes. I have never once explained logically why i feared. I just fear. Even if i did explain myself, it wasn't logical enough to convince people that it's actually something quite fearful. I think it's pretty the same for most of us. Okay... 90% of those fears are imagined. That makes me really demoralized. How negative we are! So 10% would mathematically be the percentage of fear that is 'real'. I think so. But i don't want to overplay that. Maybe it's true. But in that 10%, substract the 6 to 7% or probability that we may just feel fear from real time circumstances, it is left with 3 to 4% of what i personally think is real danger. So i think i have to learn to deal with fear. Fear will come. As long as i fight the fight of faith, i fight the fight of fear too. Let me change my mentality today. F Zone & B Zone let's change our mentality today. Fear is not an enemy. Fear is a good friend. It's like one of those good friends that sharpens and competes with you. Make fear that feeling and it would be alright. Deconstruct fear. Productivity Guru Tim Ferris says that fear shows us what we shouldn't do more often than not it shows us what we exactly should do. So that's why fear is our good friend. He says we should just think of what could be the worst possible scenario? Then it is easy Most of the time the worst possible scenario would not be death (: Awesome, he just decoded fear for all of us And relax, it's not like all of us are freaks in bondage of fear. Most of us are so faithfilled. We should know this so we don't trip.
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