Contemplative Bible Reading

Psalm 34:4 (New International Version)

I sought the LORD, and he answered me;

he delivered me from all my fears.

I’m not afraid of as much as used to be. At least I tell myself that here when I am 49 years old. Still, if someone probed me they could find plenty that I fear. Those things that I admit to fear are probably more fearful than anything I feared as a child.

This is a comforting verse. When something frightens me, I can seek the Lord and He will deliver me from that fear.

This is also frightening verse. At my age, as long as I have been following after Christ, God knows that I will still have fears. Large, awful, terrible fears to which only He can deliver me.

God, deliver me from my fears. Help me to follow after Christ in spite of them.