The importance of looking up

Fear can put us under pressure to escape from a situation. It can lead to a wrong course of action which is out of character. Fear can be used to obtain control over others but it is faith which must have the upper hand.

King David did not always respond correctly to fear ….. on one occasion he even pretended to be ill in order to obtain deliverance. In this passage, which was written by king David, we also see that He called upon God in his distress. He trusted in God and knew that God was for him and so he says ‘what can man do to me’.

The coming of Jesus Christ will cast out fear for all those who trust in Him. Death will then never be the last word in our life. God’s grace in Christ, through His dying for our sins, secures an everlasting pardon for all who trust in Him. This is what David was pointing forward to. Faith wins over fear