Fear Flipper
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Psalms 23:4 NKJV The evidence of the Lord becoming believer’s Shepherd and Sufficiency is found, not when he is surrounded with pleasantries in people, places, and purpose; but rather when he walks through the fear simulator, like the valley of the shadow of death. Since the singular purpose of fear is the depletion of faith in the sufficiency of God in a believer's life, it is only a focus on what God is doing with all the instruments of fear that saves believers from the purpose of the enemy. And like Job defeated the purpose of the enemy by staying with God, in times of his walking through the valley of the shadow of death, we can see why and what the psalmist declares and means by “ The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” (Psalms 23:1). We shall not want, even though in want, when God alone has truly become o...