![]() ![]() Why? Because such fears are concerned either with facts that cannot be altered or with imaginings that may never see the light of day. We would do well to set aside all fears that are based on the past or on the future. Many of our fears are imaginary and can be safely discarded. ![]() ![]() That peace and resignation of old age may well prove elusive and we may struggle to attain it for a long time.īernard Basset, in a little book entitled The Noonday Devil, speaks of various fears to which we may be subject: fear owing to past sins, fear that God will prove stricter than we think, fear that our standards are too low, fear that we will never get things exactly right, fear that we are unprepared for death. It is more a question of a mental or emotional state than of chronology. There are temptations peculiar to that in-between period - fear, guilt, lack of fervor, loss of conviction, discouragement. Based on that psalm some spiritual writers speak of the “Noonday Devil.” The Noonday Devil stands for the trials and temptations that assail us after our youthful fervor has faded and before we reach the age of peace and resignation. The ninety-first psalm speaks of “the scourge that wreaks havoc at high noon.” It also expresses confidence in God’s protection from that scourge, as well as other evils. ![]()
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