What fears have you overcome and how?
Undoubtedly, the greatest fear of all is to lose one’s freedom. Losing control of your own life grieves the soul. But for those obsessed with control, losing control of others’ lives grieves them even more.
Freedom has two sides: the side of good—freedom to do good things; and the side of evil—freedom to strip freedom from others. Whether for good or ill, freedom of the flesh in this temporal world may cost you a place in eternity—and that is man’s true fear.
I have fears, too. My first and greatest is my fear for humanity’s fear: the loss of tradition, the loss of life’s roots, and the loss of reverence for our Creator.
To bear a child is tradition’s way—rights and duties in balance lay. A plant stakes all on seed and strife; yet man fears losing his self in life. To raise a child for age’s grace—a gift from God, time cannot erase. From hand to hand, from hearth to hearth, a virtue passed across the earth.
Heaven shapes man; man shapes the land—each path with order, each thing with hand. Tradition once held all that is good, as natural as drinking water from the wood. But now our age has lost the thread—who still recalls their grandmother’s name? What wisdom from the ancients survives in our head? We toil for today, this fleeting breath—tomorrow’s sorrows, tomorrow’s death.
“Live for the flesh” is the reigning creed, and ancient wisdom no one will feed. No one will care. No one will read.
I also fear losing control of my own life and failing in my purpose. God gives me the courage and strength to overcome fears by walking through them. Yet with God walking beside me, I shall not be fearful (Joshua 1:8–9). And only by doing so can I become wiser, stronger, and closer to Him.
What about you—how have you overcome your fears?
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en yan hua fang 