Isaiah 7:2 The news had come to the royal court of Judah: “Syria is allied with Israel against us!” So the hearts of the king and his people trembled with fear, like trees shaking in a storm.
Fear is ‘sense-dependent‘ because it rides on the waves of stimuli reinterpreted by an individuals mind to create the corresponding emotion of fear. It could be from what one has seen, touched, tasted and smelled. However, the one perceptor of stimuli that is relevant critically is the sense of hearing.
Men communicate with words, both spoken and written words. It is therefore imperative that the content of such communication is censored and filtered. In our text today, all it took was one statement: “Syria is allied with Israel against us’, and the entire nation of Judah, including its royal courts and people, trembled in fear – only one statement.
Therefore, it is imperative that we censor what we see, hear and say, so that it inspires faith, and not fear because “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
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