Emphasis Preaching Journal

I once knew a man who spent a long and uneventful life being afraid of death. He was so afraid that he might be killed that he would not step on a plane, and dreaded traveling by boat. Increasingly, through the years, he hesitated even to leave his house except to see the doctor. His many imagined illnesses took him to his doctor often, though he was remarkably healthy. At a very advanced age he realized how he had been enslaved all his life by fear of death. And now, when his life was almost over, that fear was gone. How much of life he had missed!