I will lie down and sleep in peace. I'm not talking about being afraid to give a speech. Or afraid to ask someone out on a date. That's probably the ultimate fear. It is dark, foreboding, and it leaves us full of questions.
Death is life's greatest mystery.
Just thinking about it makes some people's hair look like Don King's. Psalm 23 addresses this ultimate fear. The valley of the shadow of death. Sounds pretty ominous. It's a double-dip explanation of death's darkness.