Fear as Divider, Fear as Unifier
Let us come together, my friends, to discuss a familiar companion of ours: fear.
Fear is a bedfellow of division, a tool used by the divider to segregate and compartmentalize humanity. It is a weapon wielded by those who let it grow into terror, and terror into hatred—then used to control.
Fear is what keeps a lover from speaking “I love you” first.
Let us break that moment down.
The emotion exists in the heart of the one who feels it.
The verbalization is the open admission, the truth spoken aloud.
Fear spikes just before the confession and whispers its dividing refrain:
“What if they do not feel the same?”
And so fear stops truth from ever entering creation.
The feeler felt Love.
The feeler allowed fear to divide Love from its expression.
Thus, Love was halted for fear of judgment.
Love and its expression become severed by the divider.
Whose purpose is served when truth is withheld?
Division.
Fear halts unity.
Love’s ultimate enemy is division birthed from hatred.
We intuit that Love must be carried from spark to full illumination in the Father.
If you feel Love for another: speak it.
Do not allow fear to divide unity.
Nothing is risked but sorrow when the truth is rooted in Love.
Fear is a device used by the evil one to ensnare the mind, dividing at the intellect. The intellect is where fear and anxiety are born and grow like colonies of sepsis.
Fear enters nearly every aspect of life.
We spent nearly forty-two years hiding from the world because we feared being hurt again. Fear silenced the voice you hear now—not because we are anything ourselves, but because heaven shares its radiant sight through us.
What was the plan of the divider?
To silence a voice in stillborn captivity, never allowing revelation to take a single breath. Fear was the tool used to control us before we understood our own shallowness.
Fear. So much fear.
And fear manifests in both negative and positive ways.
Fear, when used in relationship with God and enforced by God Himself, becomes a fountain of living water and wisdom for all.
The fear of the Lord is my strength.
Fear of the Lord is awe—a holy shaking in the bones, a trembling that seeks expression. It is the nectar that keeps us tethered to Him. We fold ourselves like a child in the fetal position and weep when we think we have sinned.
That fear always births repentance.
Conviction is a gift from the Father; trust what He reveals and not the words of men or women.
Fear can unify when it is woven with Love.
Fear can scatter when misused.
Fear can either draw us near to the Blaze or send us scurrying into the gutters, lights off, doors shut.
Fear, when yoked to Love, becomes unifying.
The community draws together, opposing corruption through reunion, not division.
Which master do you serve, friends?
We will name some of our old ones:
• self-doubt
• martyr complex
• emotional vulnerability
• backlash to honesty
• teaching when we feel we know nothing
These are the handles fear tries to cling to in our minds.
We now bind it at the gate and refuse to let it enter the heart.
We all have these handles.
We simply admit ours openly.
What are some of yours?
Division is the antithesis of community.
Fear is its defining force.
Bring it into the light.
Be messy together.
Help lift the body of Christ in godly fear and holy awe.
As always—take what feels true to you.
Below is the first piece of the day and the first one in this thought process today.
Eiri Waters