Growing up in Minnesota taught me many things about storms. Thunder would clap loud and our heart would pound, lightning would strike with flashes that lit up the sky. We were taught to never be afraid, but rather to see the lightning then count to ten, for in those moments, thunder would come, so we were ready for it. Then we were told to hear thunder like a bowling ball going down the alley.

Oh the joys of growing up in Minnesota with a mom that was pretty much fearless. I remember her telling us, as we headed out on a two week driving vacation in our 1975 Dodge conversion van; she said, you have nothing to fear unless I am afraid.

We went through cities with rain falling hard and frogs on the highway, but no fear from her. We rode in the cab of an 18-wheeler into Hoover Dam, because we convoyed and ate a meal with this trucker on our trip and over the CB radio he asked if us kids wanted to see the Dam through his view in the cab. No fear.

I remember being in Yellowstone and a bear was at our campsite, all she said was, he is looking for food, not people, but don’t go out to use the bathroom right now, wait for the bear to leave. No fear. Oh the fun we had, the lessons I learned and little did I know, she instilled in us a nothing to fear mentality.

God is never afraid, and He is our Father, so when He says, Fear Not, we have nothing to fear. If we believed God, even when a national or international storm comes, we will not fear for we would know, “When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.” (Proverbs 10:25)

Friends, our God is stable, strong, and fearless. He is our Father, Friend, Savior, and God. If He is not afraid, we don’t need to be either. Storms come with lightning and thunder, with crashes and eruptions, but fear not, it is just the sound of the removal of wickedness from our land, so the kingdom can be established on earth as it is in heaven. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org