fear

don't.

allow it no foothold.

let it be neither your motivation nor your inhibition.

pray to defeat your flesh that is so quick to tremble.

pray to know and believe and feel your savior's might.

fear him, instead.

that's another kind of fear, though -

a good one,  a better one:

the beginning of wisdom.

so,

fear him,

and be no scared little boy.