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Afraid Day 27
"When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid." (Revelation 1.17)
As the Roman government stepped up its persecution of Christians in the Second Century A.D., John must have wondered if the church would die out or whether it could survive. When Jesus appeared in glory and splendor, he reassured John "do not be afraid" that he and his fellow believers had access to God's strength to face these trials.
"Do not be afraid," Jesus says as he did to John and the other disciples on the Sea of Galilee in a terrible storm. (See painting of Jesus in the Storm at right.) "But Jesus immediately said to them: 'Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid.'"1 At the Transfiguration, when John was frightened by the presence of Moses and Elijah in an eerie cloud, he falls at his feet as though dead. Similarly, the soldiers in the Garden of Gethsemane fell down when Jesus spoke the holy "I am" name, but Jesus says, "do not be afraid." Right now, are you "on Patmos" (suffering) or "in the spirit" (reigning)?
1Matthew 14.27
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