"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
"But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
emotional and intellectual courage; the courage to be vulnerable, the courage to be wrong. in the means (for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go), and the end (i have overcome the world). the certainty with which he states this imperative - and the underlying promises upon which the command rests - suggests that perhaps the "reasonable" fears we carry, the fears that limit our faith and obedience, are nothing but phobias.
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