Fear

Only a fool has no fear.

 There are so many things in our lives that make wonderful servants and horrible masters. In fact, other than God anything else in our lives makes horrible masters. 

Think about it, love without reason gives freedom for evil to continue (I love you so I won't stop you). Courage without sense gives rise to suicide charges that win no victories. Anger can give strength in a moment but without resolution within causes destruction to our bodies and lived out it can lead to genocide. Fear, which is what started my thoughts on this blog, can give us wisdom not to do something dangerous, but as a master will keep us from doing what will save us. We can't even trust ourselves to be our master because some of the most enduring evil in the world comes when we make ourselves master/king. 

God is the exception because he is always a great master. The exception there is when we are defining what God (or gods) is rather than taking Him as he truly is. 

The key to having a good life is keeping our servants (including our will), servants, and keeping God correctly defined in our hearts. 

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