In a sermon on fear that my sister, Marcie Rahill, preached to her home congregation and shared with me, she describes how fear can create a “spiritual amnesia” where we forget God—forget who God is and forget God’s promise to always be with us. That very presence of God seems to be what scripture promises us we can rely on to help overcome our fear, but fear can easily cause us to lose our trust in it. And the hate that often comes from fear causes us to forget the power of love to transform our fear.
