‘Perfect love casts out fear.’ 1 John 4:18
Only God is capable of perfect love, which means He is able to cast out our fear. The problem is that we don’t have perfect love and therefore find it hard to accept His ability to cast out our fear. So often we read in the Bible the words ‘do not fear’. It is a repeating theme. God knows our willingness to worry, which is why He repeats these words, ‘do not fear, do not worry.’ We worry about the past, the future and the future. Worry about what we have done wrong in the past, worry how we are going to cope today and worry about all the unknown worries of the future.
But we know that the closer we are to God the less we will worry.