Isaiah 12:2a The Song of the Redeemed
The next line of the poem addresses how this temptation towards fear would be an inconsistent attitude among the saved: “Behold, God is my salvation: I will trust, and I will not be afraid. (2) Since God is our deliverance, we should trust him (be courageous) and not fear the world. If God is our deliverer, it changes the way we live. We are delivered from more than just our iniquity and guilt. We are delivered from the fears that push humanity towards idolatry and false religious solutions. This is why the Bible refers to worry as a sin. Fear and Anxiety are the opposites of trust and faith. Dr. Kirk J. Schneider, author of Life Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World, defines anxiety as “a terror of the unknown or a fear of the unknown” as opposed to regular fear as “that unpleasant emotion caused by a specific object or person” (that threatens pain or danger). Anxiety is something that every human deals with. The answer for it (and the characteristic we are looking for h...
