(I don’t think this is a shipping product.) I don’t mean to make light of people’s fears, but I am amazed at how fear-driven our world has become. C.J. Mahaney writes:

Fears reveal lies and lusts. Fears reveal idols. Fears reveal functional gods. When we submit to fear we submit to a false god rather than serving the God of Scripture, the God we seek to serve.

Mahaney quotes from Edward Welch’s Running Scared: Fear, Worry and the God of Rest (Greensboro: New Growth Press, 2007):

…We know that worry and fear are more about us than about the things outside us. They reveal what is valuable to us, and what is valuable to us in turn reveals our kingdom allegiances. We also know that God is patient and compassionate with us, and he gives grace upon grace. Though alert to our divided allegiances, he persists in calling us away from fear and worry, persuades us of the beauty of the kingdom, and gives more than we can imagine.

I humbly suggest adding this corollary to G.K. Chesterton’s famous line: “When we cease to fear God, we will not fear nothing, we will fear anything.”