Faith or Fear; you choose.

Faith and fear, more often than not, play side-by-side in the everyday lives of most people. If you can visualize two children in a sandbox, one wearing a shirt with F.A.I.T.H written on the front while the other child’s shirt says F.E.A.R, and the child wearing FAITH hands over a fistful of sand to the child wearing FEAR, as the child wearing FEAR does the same, then this is how most people are engaging with these two powerful Entities. What happens is, as both child continues to play and engage with one another in this way, there is no more or no less amount of sand in the sandbox. It’s simply rearranged.

To any onlooker the children are playing together nicely but what would be the interpretation of the two children playing if the goal was to get the sand that is inside the sandbox to the outer side, in order to make a new sandbox?

Ineffective.

Faith “is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”. When you have faith in something, or you have faith that an experience will workout for the better, while being in fear or holding anxiety in your body, then you are engaging just like the children in the sandbox.

It’s counterproductive.

What you have to do, in order to minimize the affects of fear, is to assist your faith by taken an action that is aligned with faith and not fear. In regards to the children in the sandbox this looks like the child wearing FAITH, instead of giving their handful of sand to FEAR, takes their handful of sand and places it outside of the sandbox. In this example, FEAR will see that FAITH is no longer playing with them, lose interest, and eventually leave the sandbox. This is what happens with any fear you experience.

When you stop playing with fear by allowing it to take up space in your life, it will lose its affect and no longer exist.

You choose.