Spiritual Solutions

Would you like to be free from fear of all kinds – to dissolve these fearful imaginings and have a sense of inner peace? Of course you would. I’m sure that from time to time we all have felt the pangs of fear. Some of us have wrestled through tedious hours and days and weeks, sometimes even years, with some dread fear.

We might instantly have freed ourselves from this fear if we had understood the total unreality of fear, and the absolute power and presence of God that is everywhere, evenly present throughout the Universe.

Our fear seems very real to us, but we must let go of the destructive thought of fear. And the only way to dissolve it or get rid of it or let it go is to replace it with faith in the Infinite presence and process of God.

We can and must overcome this fear because it is within our power to do it. No one else can do it for us; it all depends on the kind of thoughts we entertain. Do we give a thing the power to hurt because of the fear thought we hold about it, or do we give it the power of good by holding faith thoughts? We cannot hold both fear and faith thoughts at the same time. Our mind is our own, and it is up to us to decide the kind of thoughts we want to hold. It takes less energy on our part to hold the right kind of thoughts, thoughts that build us, than it does to hold fear thoughts that tear down.

What is fear? Fear is faith in some negative condition or thing. But fear is not of God. God did not make anything for us to fear. Fear has no reality; it has no power of itself. The only power that fear has is the power you give it, like conjuring up fanciful, imaginary beliefs about it. There can be nothing to fear unless we ourselves give something the power to harm.

In order to overcome fear we must increase our faith in God. When we are fearful we are having faith in the negative or the “evil” side of life. Our faith must be built on a firm foundation of good, with God as the only presence and power in the whole Universe. Faith moves mountains of doubt and fear.

Faith must be put into action in every thought, word, and deed. It is this active faith that is the remedy for all fear. Celia Walters says in one of her books:  “The remedy for fear is action. Are you afraid to do the thing that you know ought to be done? Then go ahead and do it. Your fear will vanish like a shadow in the doing.”

When you feel the fear rising up within you, flow with it, experience all the sensations it brings, even welcome it as a friend that you know very well; demand more, tell it to do its worst, then go ahead anyway and do the thing that is yours to do. The fear then has nothing to hold on to, and will vanish into the nothingness that it is. This is putting faith into action. So how do we put our faith into action? Simply by doing the thing that we think we are afraid to do.

Why did Jesus stress the importance of faith? He knew that faith in God is an unbreakable connection. Always, Jesus looked beyond appearances to the truth of God’s good. Let us have an unwavering faith in God. Our faith keeps our vision high in the face of every challenge or change and enables us to greet each day with joy and courage. Let us pray today as Jesus did, with a thankful heart, a steady faith, and a sure knowledge of our oneness with God.

And remember these words of Paul, in his second letter to Timothy, “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (2 Tim 1:6,7) This statement tells us plainly that God didn’t instill fear within us. Fear is of our own making. We want to remember this often, to remind ourselves that we have the power within us to wipe our fear away, to dissolve all vestiges of fear consciousness, and to express the power of love and wisdom and intelligence and faith in all of our affairs.

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham, a Unity minister for over thirty-seven years, invites you to subscribe to his free inspirational newsletter, Spiritual Solutions.

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