False fear is a destructive emotion. True fear is a rightfully protective emotion. The key is to allow reason to sift out false fear from true fear.
Godly fear dispels mortal fears.
The importance of having a sense of the sacred is simply this—if one does not appreciate holy things, he will lose them. Absent a feeling of reverence, he will grow increasingly casual in attitude and lax in conduct. He will drift from the moorings that his covenants with God could provide. His feeling of accountability to God will diminish and then be forgotten. Thereafter, he will care only about his own comfort and satisfying his uncontrolled appetites. Finally, he will come to despise sacred things, even God, and then he will despise himself.
"Fear makes most of us inhuman....everybody is afraid of a generalized danger. But specific, identifiable danger is something else." ~ John Jericho
A man who sincerely desires to walk in righteousness need have no fear of the devil.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandolf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
"Over time....The actual terrors that we faced began to lessen in intensity as we gained increasing control over our environment. But instead of our fears lessening as well, they began to multiply in number....It was as if the thousands of years of feeling fear in the face of nature could not go away - we had to find something at which to direct our anxiety, no matter how small or improbable."
"In the passive mode, we seek to avoid the situation that causes us anxiety....When we are in this mode it is because we feel that we are fragile and would be damaged by an encounter with the thing we dread."
"Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic - as people give in to it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further...."
"The greatest enemy a man can have...is fear."
"In the beginning, fear was a basic, simple emotion for the human animal"
"In the evolution of fear, a decisive moment occurred in the 19th Century when people in advertising and journalism discovered that if they framed their stories and appeals with fear, they could capture our attention."
"When we live in relatively comfortable circumstances....We find it harder to tolerate feelings of fear because they are more vague and troubling - so we remain in the passive mode."
fear "is an emotion we find hard to resist or control"
active fear occurs when "The risky or difficult situation that we fear is thrust upon us....We cannot avoid it and have to find a way to overcome our fear or suffer real consequences. Such moment are oddly therapeutic...."
Your attitude is "the knife's edge that separates failure from success in life." It "has the power to help shape your reality. If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode.
Pain is one of fear's agents. Sometimes we need to lean into the pain.