Article October 29, 1927 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from J. C. Massee, John Roach Straton, Arthur B. Jones, George A. Gordon, Joseph Fort Newton

[Rev. Dr. J. C. Massee, as quoted in the Boston Herald, Massachusetts]

Fear is not of faith. For the Christian, fear is not from God. Fear is unbelief and distrust. The promises, providences, and provisions of God, like a great host, move for its destruction. But God not only seeks to empty our hearts of fear, but also to fill them with better things. In the place of the driving power of fear, He would give us a trinity of motive. In the place of fear God gives power. That is, He gives the sense of sufficiency. He gives the spirit of ability—of enabling. Viewed through eyes of fear the forces of evil and of opposition to us are overwhelming. To the eye of faith, "They that be with us are more than they that be with them." "If God be for us, who can be against us?" In the place of fear God gives love. Perfect love produces reverence, but casts out fear because perfect love relies upon God and the availability of love's resources. Whatever love has, love may command, and—God is Love. In the place of fear God gives discipline. That is, right relation to God brings life under such discipline that we command our faculties, heart, mind, and will to the task or the situation in hand, in the confidence that as children of God for us all is well, or may be made well, in the world. Fear not.

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