Summary: The two most frequent commands in the gospels are: 1) to love God and our neighbor and 2) to not be afraid. The commands relating to not being afraid are mentioned 3 x more frequently than those commanding us to love God and our neighbor. God knows if we don't overcome fear we'll never receive or give real love with any consistency or intensity. Fear is life's only real opponent. Among all of the enemies known to man only fear can defeat the life we were pre-destined to live. A person surrendered to fear takes Jesus, the giver of life out of the equation willingly turning themselves over to the tormentor. A life full of fear becomes it's own self-fulfilling prophesy. Fear takes the intellect, imagination, will and emotion that was given to bring about God's will and gives it to satan allowing him to destroy what God had in mind. Fear must be faced and it must be overcome. Only Love can overcome fear.
