There are some interesting articles that discuss the way our brains have been created to work. More and more, science reveals the perfection of God. Research has determined that worry, fear, and anxiety function on the opposite side of our brains from things like trust and praise. In other words, the way to control our fears is to choose thoughts of trust and praise instead. When we use the opposite side of our brains, fears don’t control our thoughts.

When God told Isaiah “fear not,” he didn’t offer a suggestion or encouragement. Those words in the original language are written as a command. God commanded us to “fear not.” Then God told us how to use these brains he created us with to overcome the fear. He said, “Be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

Fears interfere with our blessings when we allow our fears to control our thoughts and choices. God has told us what to do to keep that from happening. We are to move our thoughts away from the anxiety and take those thoughts to the power of God. Then God will strengthen us, help us, and hold us up with his right hand, the same hand that created all things, including our brains.

We cannot escape the fears and worries of this world, so God provided us with the wisdom to know how to control those fears rather than allowing the fears to control us. God’s word is our wisdom. He told the prophet Micah, “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8).

Living with wisdom is a path to God’s blessings. God wants to bless our lives, and he has “told us what is good.” To walk humbly with God means we cannot know the solutions to our worries without first submitting those worries to God. Our fears and anxieties will control us and keep us from our blessings unless we follow the path that leads us to the perfection and sovereignty of our righteous God.