There is an opposition to faith—it is fear! If faith fuels our victory, fear drains it. Fear saps our strength, binds us in chains, and covers us in mud and muck. In the marathon of life, when you hit the wall, fear whispers that you can’t go on, that the finish line is out of reach. If you believe those lies, you will not reach your goal—not because it was impossible, but because fear made it so. Your beliefs, shaped in these moments, determine your outcome. Think about the people you admire most—those who overcame great odds, who achieved the extraordinary. Their victories were not the result of fearlessness, but of choosing faith over fear. 

Here’s what fear does: it ruins, it rots, it erodes. Fear eats away at you—literally and figuratively. In English, we have a saying: “What’s eating you?” It means, what are you worrying about? To be eaten by worry or fear is to feel consumed, strangled, withered, and faded. Fear can make you feel as though you are being swallowed whole, leaving you diminished and powerless. Fear also isolates you by building invisible walls that keep you from reaching out to others or accepting love and support. 

My friend, this is why faith is so vital—and why fear is so destructive. Fear has no place within you. We don’t want to be afraid of anything. Faith is the anticipation that something good is going to happen, while fear is the expectation that something bad is on the way. When you choose faith, you trust that God, who is always good, will do good for you. With every step of faith you take, you weaken the grip of fear and move closer to the life you are meant to live.