Facing FearSample

FEAR OF LOSING MATERIAL"THINGS"

An Arab Christian woman shares how this passage of scripture has impacted her life:

“By the age of ten, I had already lived in three different countries and moved five times. After marriage, and by the age of thirty-five, I had already moved fifteen times mainly because of three different war situations in my home country!

“For most changes, I had no choice! I lived in stone houses, brick houses and even in a prefabricated one at a time when Beirut was being bombarded! I have to admit that I had fears, not because of the bombardment, but because of not being able to find a place we could afford to pay rent!

“One day, I was so worried that I couldn’t sleep; so, I sat down to figure out how I would overcome this fear. I thought to myself, What is the worst thing that can happen to me? If I cannot afford to sleep in a building, I will go and sleep under a tree; no one would charge me money for doing that and no one has died because of sleeping under a tree!

“Then, I looked back into the past years and saw how God had taken good care of me – even in war times. If, by faith I am God’s child, according to His promises in the Bible, He will continue to take care of me. So, having these thoughts, I began singing, “You are my hiding place, You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance, Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you!” That was it, my fears were gone! I still do not have my own place to live, but I carry the same song in my heart.

“I discovered that the best thing to do is not to get attached to material things or even people, because they will be there for a time and soon will be gone. The best thing is to get my heart attached to God, because He will go with me everywhere, will provide for me what I need and in the end take me to live in the heavenly city where my eternal house is! So, where is your house?”

Today I will seriously evaluate where my “treasure” and “house” are because that’s where Jesus says my heart will also be.