St. Teresa of Avila: “I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.”
Those in The Culture of Death love fear and fill themselves with it. There is nothing that those who want to destroy all that is good fear more than having their fears relieved. Without things to fear, they are powerless, empty, and unfulfilled.
When the fearful take control of governments, fear reigns over all. Mencken summed up government activities with: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
The fearful are afraid to lose their fears. They could turn to God and have their fears banished. They don’t. They love their fears. Countless millions of the lost have fear-based careers. Worrying and fretting about everything there is consumes their lives while paying salaries they may not otherwise be able to obtain.
When fear enters any organization, it stops growing. It loses focus on what works and worries about things that might go wrong. If this behavior is allowed to continue, fear permeates the organization. Nothing gets done. No decisions are made. Visions are focused inward, rather than outward. Destruction is at hand.
Overcoming fear is not easy, but certainly doable. We begin by identifying it and asking God to remove it from our beings. Since fear is a living being, a virus within our operating system, it is most easily removed by asking for help from our guardian angels. Once we understand what must be removed, we know that we should ask for its removal.
FDR summed up the dangers, and the transitory nature, of fear by saying, “We have nothing to fear but fear, itself.” When we see that fear is at the root of many flaws, we can stop being filled with it. As we empty ourselves of fear, we can replace it with loving The Loving Programmer. He downloaded us with the ability to ask Him for programming assistance that no virus can withstand.
