Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
Week 2: Much-Afraid in the Valley — The Place of Fear and Limitation
Read the devotional meditations corresponding to Much-Afraid's life in the Valley of Humiliation. Key Scripture: Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 56:3.
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Much-Afraid has never known anything but the valley — its low ceilings, its fearful relatives, its creeping shadows. This week we sit with her in that place and ask honestly: what is our own valley?
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Much-Afraid's surname is not a character flaw assigned from outside — it is the name she has carried all her life. How do the fears we have lived with longest become part of how we identify ourselves?
2.The Fearing family — including Craven Fear, Self-Pity, Bitterness, and Pride — are not strangers to Much-Afraid; they are her relatives. What does it mean spiritually that our worst tendencies often feel like family — familiar, even comfortable?
a.Which of these 'relatives' has had the most influence in your own life?
b.How has that influence shaped decisions you have made?
3.Despite her fear, Much-Afraid loves the Chief Shepherd and longs to be near Him. How is it possible to genuinely love God and still be deeply, habitually afraid? How do you hold those two realities together in your own experience?