I've heard that the command that occurs most often in the Bible is "Fear not" - 365 times apparently.  If that's the case, maybe we ought to take not of it. 

Fear isn't always of something that spells danger, physical or otherwise.  It may mean doubt - What will people think of me?  Who am I to suggest this?  It may mean hesitation - Should I or shouldn't I?  It may be a question - What is the thing I ought to do?  How do I handle this tricky situation? 

We are confronted with such challenges on a daily basis.  Choices to make.  Decisions to be taken.  Pressure of work - assignments, difficult workmates, boss's expectations, just too much to be done.  Relationship problems.  Sometimes it all seems too much.  We all know the feeling, when we'd rather just quietly fade into oblivion. 

The historian of Alcoholics Anonymous entitled his book, Not God, because the most important hurdle an addicted person has to overcome is to realise he or she is not God.  The addicted person must acknowledge his or her own helplessness and fall back into the arms of the Higher Power.

If that's the case for addicted people, let us, in faith, allow God to be God in our lives, which amounts to our daily handing over of all our worries - and fears - to God.  "Fear not", and face the world with the confidence that only God can give.