Fears of the Christian

What do you fear? Are you afraid of death? Sickness? Pain? Separation? Can you define your true fears? A unique answer to those questions was once given by Chrysostom, the great church father. Empress Eudoxia had been sending him deeply threatening letters, that is, against his very life. His response is illuminating: "Nil nisi peccatum timeo." That Latin saying is simply translated as "I fear nothing but sin." What do you fear?