Wrong Attitudes- A Fearful Mindset, Part 3 (TMF:593)

Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Fearful Mindset, Part 3 (TMF:593) - Daniel Litton
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       A good way we could define fear is to be lacking in faith, or not having faith at all. I think a good, basic illustration of this comes to us in Matthew chapter 14. If you'll remember, Jesus and the disciples had just finished with a crowd, and Jesus went up on a mountain to pray while the disciples got an early start out to sea. And a storm rose up, and the storm was giving the disciples a hard time at navigating the boat. Then Jesus came to them walking on the sea. And we read that after they had mistook him for a ghost, that Peter said to him, ““Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased” (28-33, ESV). Often we can have the same response as Peter. We see a situation in life, and God is encouraging us to do something. But we feel we can't do it because we are afraid. Satan gets us to be afraid of what others will think, or he gets us to imagine the worst possible outcome, and we believe that is what is going to happen.