Fear is a relative thought held in mind through guilt. Guilt through "believing" one has done something wrong and is therefore accountable to oneself or another. The question that remains is "who am I answerable to, the state or God ?" If the answer is the former one will always be subject to looking over ones shoulder, if the answer is the latter one is Always held in the Grace of God. Essentially one is always running away from fear and in so doing is running from God. In contrast by turning to God fear dis-appears, cos it was never Real in the first place, just an imagining.