The power of the Holy Spirit is not preached about enough. Why do you suppose Paul mentions it here, in connection with fear?

If we love God with all our heart and soul, all our strength, and all our mind, then we need not fear. God gives us the Holy Spirit which fills us with love, power, and a sound mind. 

Don’t miss that. I read those two passages for years before I saw the connection. Let me show you again.

“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” – Mark 12:30

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. – 1 Timothy 1:7

If we love God with all our heart and soul, in as much as we are humanly capable, the Holy Spirit perfects our efforts by filling us with His love. 

If we love God with all our mind, at least as much as we are humanly able, then the Holy Spirit perfects our efforts by giving us a sound mind. 

If we love God with all our human strength, then the Holy Spirit will perfect our efforts and fill us with His power, the power to overcome sin and death, that which we fear. 

Fear Not, for God has given us the spirit of power, the power of His Holy Spirit. 

I just don’t get it. I seriously do not understand how I spent most of my life searching for satisfaction in life by chasing after the wrong things. I am dumbfounded that I finally found fulfillment in the same place that I first saw it as a toddler, not much more than a year old, at an altar in a church. 

Like some people, I went looking for the wrong things in the wrong places. I thought I was searching for myself. I mean that’s what kids in the sixties and seventies told ourselves. “I’m searching for meaning in life.” “I’m trying to find myself.” “Wow, man. Someday, I’ll figure out who I really am.”

It took me five decades, hitting bottom several times, financial tragedy, nearly losing my family, bodily injury, and three bouts with cancer. In the end, I wound up back where I started when my mother took me to the front of the church and dedicated me to Christ. When I found Jesus, I found myself. 

Are you still looking for satisfaction in life?

The fear of the Lord leads to life,

And he who has it will abide in satisfaction;

Proverbs 19: 23a 

Fear Not, for there is satisfaction in Jesus Christ.