TO LIVE BY HOPE AND FAITH
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath . . . these are not my native airs. A Johns Hopkins’ doctor says that “we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.” But I, who am simple of mind, think I know: we are inwardly constructed in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith and hope is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against reality. Adapted from E. Stanley Jones
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