Fear of the dark and light
See the picture? It's a bright church as seen from a dark alley. This is my 3rd report :) In case you're wondering how come I have so much time, (a) God makes time for me, so surely we should reciprocate :) and (b) I used lunch hour OK?!?! Last week, we talked about fear. There are two main types of fear - the "good" type and the "bad" type. The "good" type refers to the fear of the Lord - giving reverence to the Creator and Judge of the earth in the way we think and act and live. What I propose to talk about today is the "bad" type of fear. Fear of the dark I think there can be two aspects to "bad" fear. The first aspect is is akin to the fear of the dark. Fear of the dark is when we can't see what is ahead and we worry that there are nasty surprises in store for us. Typically, this manifests itself in fear over our own futures, in terms of family, career, housing plans, investments etc. We don't know if our children wi...