Apprehension...
Some time ago I completed a daily reading series by Charles Swindoll, Come Before Winter... While each reading was thought-provoking one reading in particular held my attention. Apprehension... One explanation of apprehension by Dictionary.com describes it this way, anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil. Further reading of Dictionary.com includes the following synonyms, alarm, worry, uneasiness and suspicion, all implying an unsettled and uneasy state of mind, and again apprehension is an active state of fear, usually of some danger or misfortune. This undefined uneasiness or feeling of uncertainty, misgiving or mistrust has the potential to cripple or immobilise, to hold us back. "What frustration is to yesterday, apprehension is to tomorrow." ...Swindoll The admission by the Apostle Paul in Acts 20:22, "And now compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.", has an air of ...