If “fear is a liar” then anxiety is a robber.
It steals in abundance from the unsuspecting.
When I was younger, I once opened the door of my home to a thief. In hindsight, I clearly see where I went wrong. Said thief was posing as a salesman. (Don’t worry, no one was harmed in the unfolding of this crime.) I was in a hurry. I didn’t ask who he was representing. He was offering something I didn’t want. I was trying to be nice. Before long, he had my money and I never received the product I thought I purchased.
Anxiety is a thief.
It takes intangible items of high value away from you…
Time
Joy
Rest
Peace
Be anxious for nothing.
No thing.
Not one thing.
Not even this, whatever your “this” is.
Sometimes my head and my heart don’t align. What I mean is that I can know in my head that something is true, but the emotions of my heart have a hard time keeping pace.
I know God doesn’t want me to be anxious, but the reality is I can be. The proof is in the sleepless nights, the thoughts of “what if…”that play on repeating my head, and responses that lack grace.
We like to be in control.
We like to know what’s coming.
It’s been said, “we’ve made an idol of predictability.”
An idol.?! Yes…We have.
We can’t possibly know our future. We can know He who holds it. He is sure and my trust in Him makes me secure.
Sure and secure.
Peace and rest.
Joy and calm.
Trust is the highway to it all.
Fear is a liar.
Worry is a snare.
Anxiety is a robber.
It offers what you don’t want.
It doesn’t t represent God.
You’d never knowingly open your home to a thief.
Don’t open the home of your heart to anxiety. It can sneak in disguised as fear, and linger in your mind as worry. Ultimately, it takes you captive.
Your anxiety is not your friend.
Don’t be nice to your robber.
1 Peter 5:7
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
