GEMS-Youth: President Gordon B. Hinckley on Overcoming Fear

President Gordon B. Hinckley on Overcoming Fear

“Who among us can say that he or she has not felt fear? I know of no
one who has been entirely spared. Some, of course, experience fear to a
greater degree than do others. Some are able to rise above it quickly, but
others are trapped and pulled down by it and even driven to defeat. We
suffer from the fear of ridicule, the fear of failure, the fear of
loneliness, the fear of ignorance. Some fear the present, some the future.
Some carry the burden of sin and would give almost anything to unshackle
themselves from those burdens but fear to change their lives. Let us
recognize that fear comes not of God, but rather that this gnawing,
destructive element comes from the adversary of truth and righteousness.
Fear is the antithesis of faith. It is corrosive in its effects, even
deadly.

” ‘For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of
power, and of love, and of a sound mind’ (2 Timothy 1:7).

“We need not fear as long as we have in our lives the power that comes from
righteously living by the truth which is from God our Eternal
Father.

“Nor need we fear as long as we have the power of
faith.”

( “God Will Make a Way,” New Era, Jan. 2002, 6-7)