Fear or Courage?
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…. (Eleanor Roosevelt, late U.S. First Lady)
Roosevelt continues: “. . . we must do that which we think we cannot.” The difficult experiences of life—even those that we faced with fear –can prepare us for success in the future, so that, indeed, we can do what we never thought we could. Then, as Roosevelt implies, we can face the difficult and the unknown with courage and confidence.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7)