Nothing to fear but fear? Or evil?

Do you ever get that feeling that their is an evil one lurking on this earth?  I mean that terrified feeling that we need a saviour, we need someone to save us, because you feel you are not safe?  I got that feeling.  I just heard that Valerie Miller Elliot died last week.  I was reading the great controversy last night, about persecution of God's people.  Yesterday I heard my friend Jon Moya's mother is not doing well.  I heard of an adventist school teacher that left her family to marry a muslim man in egypt.  I heard of missionaries who's plane crashed.  Last night at the church I was closing the doors and I felt terrified, not because my faith in God is weak, but because I was overwhelmed with the struggle of this earth.  And I felt in the realest since that someone hates me and wants me to die.  The great Controversy comes alive in the strangest places, and times.  For some, during a horrible experience they have, such as a loved one dying, or being persecuted because you are a christian.  For me, the Controversy tends to touch me when horrible things happen to other people.  I have always been sensitive to that sort of a thing. I grew up in an area of the world, and a family of the world where tragedy didn't happen as much as most other places.  Collegedale is a place that is not of the typical world.  I feel it is not reality.  Its not cold, violent, ugly, or un safe.  When somebody dies it affects me on a deep emotional level, sometimes I cry for people I don't even know.  I had a dream the other night about the sunday law, and I was terrified during the dream because my relationship with God isn't where it should be.  God tends to do that doesn't he?  He tends to nudge you in the right direction.  Its not force, but it really opens your eyes nonetheless.  Death and Dying is not something that I should fear.  What I should fear is people are being lost because I didn't share the light that Jesus is giving me.  One of the saddest things to me is people that are distracted from our true purpose on the earth.  That is to spread his gospel, to go and share it with every tribe, nation, and tongue.  I look around and all I see is selfish people (me included), why is it like that?  Because the dragon called satan has God's people on the ropes.  But you know we may be a church that is divided right now.  We may be a church that is predominately straddling the fence.  But a time is coming where polarization will tear our church in two.  And the true christians will follow Jesus wherever he goes, while those who don't care to do the latter will side with the prince of darkness.  Speaking of prince of darkness, I was watching ESPN the other day, and they were calling Ozzy Osbourne the prince of darkness, thats the same name as Satan!  How horrifying it is for me to see the subtleness of the evil one attacking everyone, and how so many have ignore the subtleness of evil.  May we all realize the deception of satan, and focus on Christ, in the days ahead.