The popular notion that no one can make you feel anything, that each person is entirely responsible for his or her own feelings, is not necessarily biblical, nor is it always true. If a crazy man waves a loaded gun in my face, he has made me afraid. He is responsible for my feelings, not me. His action made me feel fear. Micah the prophet describes a fear-less future where “no one will make [us] afraid.” He promised,
“And it will come about in the last days that... every man will sit… under his own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid,” (Micah 4.1a, 3b-4 NIV).
