How do you deal with fear?

Luther:

Fear is based on things that we devise in our own minds and what we imagine may happen. I know that for sure, by my own experience and also from what I have seen in others who experienced confusion and unrest. I know from my own life how much misery I ended up in because of that.

Everyone gets his portion of Christ’s cross. Do not throw it away, but take it up. Accept it in your heart. Misery, persecution, suffering and the hateful things that people do to you are blessed because Christ embraces you therein in His loving heart. So they move from misery to happiness, from suffering to glory, from cross to glee.