God is Bigger Than the Boogey Man!

Psalm 56:3-4
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
4     In God, whose word I praise—
in God I trust and am not afraid.
    What can mere mortals do to me?

 One of the most common things we share as human beings is "fear".  Fear of death, fear of public speaking, fear of (you fill in the blank).  When a fear becomes so obsessive it becomes a phobia.  Some people who are afraid of flying, never fly, and drive thousands of miles to avoid flying. Each one of us have different fears based on things that have happened to us that may or may not happen again.  I got in a pretty bad car accident (my car was totaled) last December, with my son in the car. We still are a little nervous at an intersection.  

 As we know David was on the run from those looking to kill him, both friend and foe.  But, in these two verses, we see how David dealt with his fears.  When David was in fear, he put his trust in God.  He realized that God was bigger than his fears and turned his focus from his fear to the person of God.  As the old Veggie Tales song goes, "God is bigger than the boogey man". David finishes by saying that if his full trust in is God, than who does he have to fear.

 So as you can see David's situation doesn't necessarily change, but the way he looks at his situation changes.  He has replaced his fear with trust in God and His word.  Meaning God's Word has more power than any word on earth.  That is why Paul calls God's Word the sword of the spirit.

 What are you fearing today?  How can you turn over your fears to God and trust in him.  If God is for you, who can be against you?  

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