Me: I don’t know if you should get so close to that spider.

Prodigal: I am not afraid of no spider.

Me: There are two types of fear.

This comes from the book Lead Like Jesus by Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges and Phyllis Hendry

The capacity to experience fear is a gift from God. When heeded, fear protects us. Yet what we actually do with fear when we experience it can prevent us from enjoying the good it can bring. So instead of enhancing life, fear has poisoned human relationships ever since man first stepped outside of God’s will. Consider the consequences of Adam and Eve’s eating the forbidden fruit: they immediately became self-conscious, covered their nakedness, and hid from God in fear. Human beings have been hiding ever since, because we fear that our weaknesses and bad behavior will be found out. The irony is, God already sees those weaknesses and knows all about our bad behavior.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org