Donald Miller on Fear

Last year I vowed I wouldn't make decisions out of fear.  And because of that I've had one of the greatest years of my life.  I went to Uganda and got to meet with the man who helped write their constitution.  I wrapped up an evangelism project I believe will introduce more than a million people to the gospel.  I rode my bike across America.  All of this stuff took some degree of risk.  But when calculating those risks, I realized the only reason not to try was fear.  What if I was wrong, what if I couldn't make it, what if the project didn't work?  But none of my heroes are controlled by fear.  The commandment most often repeated in scripture, in fact, is "do not fear."  Fear is often something unrighteous trying to keep you from doing something good.  They will never write stories about people controlled by fear.