F.E.A.R.

F.alse
E.vidence
A.ppearing
R.eal

Fear is not as scary as it appears when you know how to dismantle it and reduce it to nothing.

False Evidence Appearing Real!

False evidence is a condition, situation or circumstance that appears true, but is not.

I have a friend who listened to a party guest describe in detail the symptoms of a skin disease. The next morning she looked in the mirror and saw the disease on her face. She became very fearful.

From a physical point of view, the disease appeared real and true. She could touch it, feel it and see it.

When talking with her about it, we readily agreed that what she saw in the mirror was not a physical condition, but a mental impression from the previous night’s conversation with the party guest. To undo the impression in her thought, we needed to know the spiritual truth about her health. The spot would then disappear.

In praying together, we affirmed God governed her health and well being, not other people’s fears. That she could not pick up any unGodlike condition, for she was God’s unchangeable perfect image. That disease is not mentally transferred from one person to another. That God made her healthy and kept her healthy. That she had nothing to fear.

As we talked, her fear evaporated. She called back the next day and reported the blemish gone.

I seen other examples also that fear is no more real than the false evidence that creates the fear in the first place.

The antidote for fear is Truth. The more we understand Truth—that God is omnipresent Love and all-powerful Mind—the less gullible we are to believing in a lie. Fear then has no basis to take root in thought.

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God.”

Worship Truth, not error, and you’ll have a whole lot less fear to battle and a whole lot more peace to rejoice in.

Fear not! God has your health under control.