Fear, anger, and anxiety are powerful motivators for behavioral change and tend to see some of the highest returns on investment. Advertisers and marketers have known this for years. And since political campaigns are essentially one ginormous marketing effort, exploiting the fears of the American people can become quite lucrative both in cash money and votes.

Here’s a question - do you really want your exploited fear to be what decides your vote? Because the chances are, it will be.

I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture in DC last Sunday morning. We skipped our regular church service and caught a train to DC with my family and brother to meet my sister-in-law who was leading a band trip there. So I can’t claim that it was my idea.

We had missed church service the weekend before as well and my inner church girl who owned several Sunday school perfect attendance airbrushed tee shirts was fighting me about missing church again.

Little did I know how much that visit would be a Divine encounter in and of itself.

When we say “faith over fear” are we actually saying “my fear over your fear?” Today, I have genuinely been asking myself this question and others. Is my position truly faith-based, or fear-based? Have I ranked my fears into what’s most terrifying to me, helping me determine my course of action, or am I truly placing my faith in God? Also, is it ok to rank my fears to help make my choices?