Fear and Faith Together. (1 Samuel 27: 1-12)

There’s an assumption many Christians carry quietly in their hearts—an assumption we rarely say out loud, but one that governs how we judge ourselves spiritually. It goes something like this: 

 If I truly have faith, then I shouldn’t feel afraid. And if I’m afraid, then perhaps my faith has failed.

Faith and fear, we think, cannot occupy the same heart at the same time.

 But Scripture, in its relentless honesty, tells a different story. How fear and faith can coexist, and what happens when fear begins to overshadow faith….