God’s answer to anxiety (3)

One Christian author writes: “I once went through a period… when I was plagued by anxiety. I was filled with fear and dread for no particular reason. I kept feeling something terrible was going to happen. Finally, I went to the Lord and asked Him what was troubling me. He told me it was ‘evil forebodings.’ At the time I didn’t even know what that phrase meant or where it came from. Sometime later I came across Proverbs 15:15: ‘All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances]’ (AMPC)…

I was like so many other people. I was looking for some ‘monster problem’ that was keeping me from enjoying life. I was so intense about everything; I was creating problems for myself where none really existed.

Once in a meeting, the Lord told me to speak out something. Apparently, someone needed to hear this: ‘Stop making a big deal out of nothing.’ I used to be the type of person who needed to hear directions like that. I could make mountains out of molehills. I had to learn to just let some things go – forget them and go on. Some of us become upset over things that are just not worth becoming upset over – those ‘little foxes, that spoil the vines’ (Song of Songs 2:15 KJV). If our lives consist of becoming upset over one little thing after another… we won’t have much peace or joy.”

So, the word for you today is – cultivate a happy heart and start enjoying the life God has given you!

Soul food: Zeph 1-3; John 6:1-24; Ps 85; Prov 24:11-14