Article May 9, 1953 Issue

HOW FAITH REMOVES FEAR

ARNOLD HIRSCH

What should concern us about fear is not its seeming origin but how it is to be removed. Believing in the reality of what appears to cause our fears, and then having faith that somehow and in some way the danger will pass away, is not faith at all. It is mere human wishful thinking, devoid of spiritual power. Faith, to be faith in the only true sense of the word, must be based on the all-power of God.

Once when Christ Jesus and his disciples put out to sea in a small boat, they were overtaken by a violent storm. Fearing that they must all perish, the disciples awoke their Master, who had been asleep. And when he had rebuked the wind and stilled the raging of the waters, he asked (Luke 8:25), "Where is your faith?"

Yes, where was their faith? Where is our faith? Are we, like the disciples, preoccupied in thinking of the insecurity of the things of the so-called material world? Any faith the disciples had in the stanchness of their craft or in their skill as seamen appears to have availed them nothing. Perhaps they even reminded themselves that more than once before they had come through the horror of raging waters and hurricane winds safely. But this, too, apparently availed little. Thus we see that faith must be faith in God, good, and not in matter or in material circumstances. Our faith must be based, as Jesus' faith was, on the spiritual understanding that divine Love is the only reality and power.

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