4. I sought the Lord, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
5 Those who look to him are radiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
and saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Fear of the unknown lurking in the shadows imposes its anxieties on us, consigning us into a cell of our own construction where we serve out our sentence of self bestowed distress.
Appealing to Our Father for assistance in those moments, those days when our life appears to be filled with dread, triggers a response from The Father intervening in our struggles asking us to do all that He asks of us leading us into peaceful waters.
Daniel Defoe's. Robinson Crusoe was a wake up call for me during my primary school years teaching me that even when alone, marooned on a deserted island Our Father will counsel us how best to cope with, and overcome our fear of the unknown confronting our daily reality.
It is never too late to be wise. Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them.
~ Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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