No Fear

Do you notice the world changing rather dramatically everywhere you look? Many people are full of fear. Seems we fear according to how circumstances affect us and circumstances affect us according to how well prepared we are.  Recession- no fear if one has lived below their means, saved, and has no debt . World events- no fear if one knows that "...the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men." (Daniel 4:17:b)  Death- no fear if one is prepared to stand before a just and holy G-d in the righteousness of His Anointed One ("...shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities." Isaiah 53:11b) and not in one's own righteousness. (But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;...Isaiah 64:6a) How well prepared are we? Only by trusting in the shed blood of the Messiah can we have no fear "For G-d hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (II Timothy 1:7)