The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Two questions, back to back, and both of them rhetorical: whom shall I fear, of whom shall I be afraid. The writer isn't claiming fear doesn't exist. He's saying it loses its grip once you know what's actually holding you.
That's worth noticing, because most of what makes fear so exhausting isn't the threat itself — it's the sense that you're facing it completely alone, with nothing solid underneath you. Light and salvation and stronghold are three different pictures of the same idea: something outside you that doesn't move when things around you do.
You don't have to pretend you're not afraid of anything right now to read this honestly. You just have to ask whether the fear is bigger because there's genuinely nothing steady beneath you — or because you haven't yet found what's actually there.
If you've ever wanted something steady enough to actually hold your fear, that's worth an honest look rather than a quick dismissal.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.