ITL203: How Fear Shapes Your Life—and How to Take Control
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer two listener questions on how fear shapes your life and how to balance belief in yourself against pride.
I find many instances indicating that God can use tragedy and bad choices to fulfill His purposes, but I don’t find any evidence that God decides to make you scared.
- The times that I have been scared have usually been instances that I’ve kind of brought on myself.
- I can’t imagine God would say “Fear not” so many times but still try to instill fear in us anyway.
Adam started at a new school this year and he was fearful.
- I talked to him about purpose and we broke down all the things he might have to be fearful of.
- When he came home from school I asked how it was and he said it was different. I said, “Good different?” He said, “It was.” So, if it’s different, and it’s good, then it’s probably better.
The old saying is that God made you with a purpose.
- If you’re out there speaking thoughts and truths that you’ve spent time struggling with, you’re wide open to criticism.
- But if He made you that way—with a purpose—then He believes in you. And if you believe in Him then you believe in His creation...yourself.
Tune in to the full episode to hear Andy tell a story about the night former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer was elected into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.3 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, are you there? |
| 0:19.2 | I am here, David. How are you doing? I am terrific. I'm excited. |
| 0:23.6 | We continue to get some unique and inspiring questions, some great feedback on these conversations. |
| 0:32.6 | And I really hope that that's what people are hearing. Surely they know that you're, you know, not studying and |
| 0:39.7 | preparing and outlining the answers to all this. I'm pretty sure they got that, David. I'm pretty |
| 0:44.8 | sure they figured that out. Well, and we've talked about it several times, but it's not like you're, |
| 0:49.3 | I mean, you see these questions pretty much right when I ask them to you. There's a case. |
| 0:53.8 | I really, I really enjoy this. |
| 0:56.1 | So this is, this is the, you know, we've said this before, is the only thing that I do that doesn't have, |
| 1:03.7 | this has a lifetime of preparation, but not an hour of it. Absolutely. Yeah. So it's something that I, it's, it's something that I, it, this podcast causes me to think |
| 1:16.4 | very hard, very deeply and, um, and very intently. |
| 1:21.9 | And so, so I, I think that this, it's a, it's a neat thing that we all kind of get to think together I mean you know |
| 1:29.6 | when we initially started doing this almost four years ago the idea was that we would kind of take a |
| 1:36.6 | topic and do something and you know maybe people could send in questions but it has really |
| 1:41.6 | evolved into we're kind of taking the topics that everybody |
| 1:46.1 | else wants to hear. And it kind of sends, it's great for me because it creates a great |
| 1:53.5 | learning point for me as well. I'm stretching and learning and working as hard as I can too. |
| 1:59.5 | Absolutely. Well, and for those of you who have been with us for a long time, |
| 2:03.1 | maybe you've been listening for several years. |
| 2:05.5 | Just know that we repeat and kind of recover some of these items |
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