Weekend Blessing
February 19/20
Big Anxieties, Little Faith
Stressful situations come in a variety of forms and intensities, and in this earthly existence, we will never be totally free of them. However, the important issue is, What are we going to do with our anxiety? If we let it dominate, fretfulness can become a way of life. But if we believe what the Bible says about God and His care for us, we will experience an awesome liberation from worry.
Do you sometimes doubt whether our heavenly Father really cares about the ordinary things that cause you anxiety? After all, He's got the entire universe to run, and your issues are so small in comparison. Consider how inconsequential birds and flowers are, yet Jesus says that the Father cares for them (Matt. 6:26). Don't you think you are worth much more to Him than they are?
At times we let ourselves get all worked up and stressed out because we're trying to change something that is beyond our control. Just as no one can add a single day to the length of his life, so there are some situations that we are powerless to alter. But the sovereign Ruler of the universe loves us and holds everything in His hands—including our stressful and seemingly out-of-control situations. Therefore, we have no reason to fret or fear.
Perhaps the biggest reason we worry is because we don't trust the Lord. Anxiety is no more than unbelief. The Bible is filled with God's promises to provide, but so often we doubt that He will. If you can trust Him for your eternal security, can't you also trust Him for your earthly needs?
Albert Schweitzer
I can say that as I have grown in my relationship and faith, and through tons of therapy working through my childhood experiences, my anxiety has dissipated, and I only have episodes of anxiety now, and they are infrequent. Before, it used to be a daily, all day experience.
What has been your experience with anxiety?
Hugs,
Trish
Albert Schweitzer
Thanks for you transparency. I too, had a traumatic childhood, my oldest brother murdered my father when I was 12. I didn't witness it, but I have witnessed a couple of brothers hallucinate and become delusional, and scare me. The threat of violence was present in my childhood and early adulthood.
Thank God, I have a Christian mother! She taught us to live by faith and trust God by example. I've seen here look in the face of evil and command it to reside. I've seen her pray for rain, and it rain only on her garden while the rest of the area was in a long hot dry spell.
Due to some of the traumatic events of my childhood, I have dealt with fear as it exposes itself in different ways. Fear of the dark, fear or storms, fear of animals, etc. I have over come some fears, but other grip me at times.
When I was about 40 I had the surgery induced menopause. That is when the majority of my anxiety manifest it self. I take medication for it. I have prayed for years for deliverance, for I truly know what God can do, but this is something that I have had to accept. Just as one with diabetes has to have meds. I am on a low does of Zoloft. I hope this does not destroy my testimony, but I can only be honest. I am so thankful for a merciful God.
Dixie Darlin'
HW 252 / Consult Weigh 247 /SW 235 / CW 187 / GW 160
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