The Side Effects of Fear So, in my first post, Fear Doesn’t Have to Win, I said that I wasn’t living with the side effects of fear anymore. Typically when I write posts, I just write and write and write and get everything out and then I go back and take things out and re-write things. That phrase was one that I debated on if I should keep or take away. Clearly I kept it, but I do think it needs some explaining. To clarify, so there is no confusion, the fear I’m talking about, is the fear to do the things that God has called you to do. Truthfully, side effects may not have been the exact choice of words needed to explain how I felt; However that’s what came out when I wrote that post, and I don’t think it was a coincidence. Let’s think about medicine. Most all medicines have side effects to them. So, let’s think of fear as a medicine. If you take fear, the side effects are often doubt, frustration, paralyzation, and unbelief. There can many more side effects, but just to be transpar...