Friday, May 29, 2015

Jesus said, "Fear not!"


"That voice you hear in the back of your head isn't your conscience. It's your fear." 

This applies in so many situations: social, political, religious, personal.  

The hearts are there in the background (until they get changed later today) because of 1 John 4:18: "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." 

Some folks in the news lately have suggested that it is only fear of God's punishment that keeps all of us from doing dreadful things to the innocent. They might need to ponder that passage. Maybe we all do, whether believers or not.

The quote on the side about the mind killer is from Frank Herbert's science fiction classic, Dune. The line about conscience is, I think, from an apparently justifiably little-known film, Runner Runner.

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