How easy it is to mouth glib assurances! How simple to say to another with airy confidence, "Don't be afraid!"—as though mere human will could turn fear off like a faucet.
But our encouragement of another can be genuinely helpful if based on something deeper than mere words—if founded on an understanding trust in the all-presence and all-power of God, infinite divine Love. The sure sense of divine good that we entertain is dynamic because its source is in God, and it communicates itself to anyone we are helping.
How can we develop this healing assurance and silence fear?
