Restrained by the fear of failure

A man happened to see something strange at a circus. After the performance, he saw elephants being tied: The mother elephant was tied to a small stake with a thin rope, while the baby elephant to a strong stake with a thick rope tightly.

He wondered and asked their trainer why he tied the baby elephant more tightly than the mother elephant. Then the tamer said, “The baby elephant is not fully trained and tries to pull the stake out of the ground to which it is tied and run free. That is why I ties it to a heavy stake with a thick rope. However, the mother elephant remembers that in her babyhood she tried repeatedly to get away but couldn’t.

So the mother elephant doesn’t even try to escape once she notices that she is chained.

That’s why I chain the baby elephant to a huge stake, while tying the mother elephant to a little stake.” The fear of failure stopped the elephant from running free.

When we are dominated by the fear of failure, we cannot carry out our gospel ministry in the best possible way. Christ, before he ascended up to heaven, told us to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth.

God told us not to have such fear.

The Bible describes ‘fear’ in two different way: “fear God” and “do not fear” it is not because God is the object of fear that the Bible tells us to fear him, but because he is our Creator and Savior. 

On the other hand, the Bible tells us not to fear.

This implies that we don’t have to fear anything or anyone other than God.