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The Place of Peace

Having read the previous chapter, you may have concluded that it looks like
mankind, weak as we are, must always endure fear and anxiety, for this is our lot as
long as we are clothed in this sinful, fallen flesh. It is true that there is great fear that
is bound up in these fallen bodies which we inhabit, but there is a place of peace that
the saint can attain to. I have received tremendous comfort in recent days as the
Spirit has been testifying through many Scriptures that it is not the will of Christ that
His disciples should carry fear and anxiety in their hearts.’

The fact of the matter is that we have been commanded to not be anxious and fearful.
Whenever Yahshua’s disciples manifested fear He chided them and gave them a
reprimand. He would look at them and say, “You men of little faith! Why did you
doubt?” We know that when Yahshua said, “Do not commit adultery,” that any who
were to violate His command would be displeasing to Him. It is equally a
transgression of the will of Christ to be filled with anxiety and fear, for He
commanded them “Do not fear.” Nor did He tell His disciples these things one time,
but many.

As you read through the following Scripture passages, consider the attitude of Christ
toward anxiety and fear in the heart of man. Did He ever express pleasure over
someone who was walking in fear? Did He ever commend their anxiety as being
sensible? Did He give the idea that it was right, and even responsible, to worry about
the things without which man could not live? Did He ever say, “Well done. You have
proven yourself a good steward by having much care and anxiety in the performance
of your duties”? Did He express an attitude that it was sinful to worry about the small
things, but it was okay to be fearful about more perilous matters?

I think you will see that Yahshua treated ALL fear and anxiety the same. He never
condoned it. He never sympathized with it. He never expressed satisfaction in it.
Instead, He consistently said, “Do not harbor it! Get rid of it! Replace it with faith!”

Matthew 6:25-34
“For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you
will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not
life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air,
that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father
feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being
anxious can add a single hour to his life? And why are you anxious