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Are you afraid of the future, or do you feel you are alone? These are valid questions that many of us with MS unfortunately come across in our lives with this disease. Being afraid or feeling alone can have a devastating effect on our quite out of the ordinary lives. One can say when living with MS these feelings are quite normal, and yet it is these very feelings that can ultimately destroy us.

You know, if we can turn to our Lord Jesus Christ and truly place our trust in him then neither being afraid nor feeling alone will be a part of our lives. Listen to these verses from the Holy Scripture.

That night the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Ge 26:24

When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. Ps 56:3-4

"Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord. Je 1:8

"You of little faith, why are you so afraid?" Mt 8:26

After reading the above we are taught that God is always there with us and therefore we are never alone and should never be afraid. Think about this even further. Is there anyone more powerful than our Heavenly Father? If God tells us he will rescue us, that he is always with us, do we have any reason for fear or loneliness?

I have a friend who attended grade school and high school with me who a while back told me that he believed in an eternal life but it was the here and now that really concerned him. He had many fears tearing at him. He was a divorced man who has not moved on with his life, therefore he really felt alone. He was afraid of his age, 51, because he did not want to get over. He was worried about his job, his future, finances, and on and on.

I told him the following. I reminded him of our grade school. Every classroom had a blackboard that ran the length of a wall, approximately 4 feet by 35 feet. I told him to imagine the board shiny black and spotless and think of it as eternity, stretching out forever and ever. Then I told him to imagine himself taking a piece of chalk and placing a tiny dot on that vast board. Now consider that dot as an average human life span of years. If that dot represented say 75 years and the rest of that board represented a part of eternity, isn't that 75 years insignificant? In other words, don't worry about your present circumstances for when compared to our life in eternity, it is nothing. And believing God is always with you in your earthly life, focus on assuring you will be with him in your eternal one.

Remember my friends, God is always with you, therefore you are never alone, and knowing He loves you and that He is all-powerful and mighty, you will never have to live in fear.

All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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