confidence about the future. Their fears control them. What you love most, you also fear losing the most. And whatever threatens what you love most controls you. Parents love their children. I certainly love mine very much. However, if I love them more than God and his mission, I will build my entire life around them, and then I will be controlled by a fear of anything that could threaten them. I have watched many parents walk away from obeying God for fear of what it will do to their children.