The secret to neutralizing fear is to embrace the threatened disaster and count it as not too high a price to pay for obedience to Christ. This attitude of faith may not totally eliminate the uneasiness and apprehension. It will, however, allow you to go ahead and act in obedience to Christ. The problem of fear is not the fear itself, but the fact that we allow it to immobilize us. Being afraid is no sin. Shrinking back fearfully from obedience is sin fear can stop you in your tracks as a Christian .but it doesn’t have to. You can trust God (and) move ahead in obedience because you understand fear and know how to deal with it.

Wayne McDill, Making Friends for Christ, p. 103