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Month: July 2019
Why We Worry
Why We Worry
Today’s Scripture: Matthew 6:25
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“Do not be anxious about your life.”
Why do we worry? Because we don’t believe. We’re not really convinced the same Jesus who can keep a sparrow in the air knows where our lost luggage is, or how we’ll pay that car repair bill. Or if we believe he can deliver us through our difficulties, we doubt if he will. We let Satan sow seeds of doubt in our minds about God’s love and care for us.
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer about everything. “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7). Nothing’s too big for him to handle or too small to escape his attention. Paul said we’re to come to God “with thanksgiving.” We should thank him for his past faithfulness in delivering us from troubles. We should thank him for the fact that he’s in control of every circumstance of our lives and that nothing can touch us that he doesn’t allow. We should thank him that in his infinite wisdom he’s able to work in this circumstance for our good. We can thank him that he won’t allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear (1 Corinthians 10:13).
The promised result is not deliverance, but the peace of God. One of the reasons we don’t find this peace is that all too often we won’t settle for anything other than deliverance from the trouble. But God, through Paul, promises us peace, a peace that is unexplainable. It will guard our hearts and minds against the anxiety to which you and I are so prone.
Sin of Anxiety
The Sin of Anxiety
Today’s Scripture: 1 Peter 5:7
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“He cares for you.”
When we tell someone, “don’t be anxious,” we’re simply trying to encourage or admonish that person in a helpful way. But when God in his Word tells us, “don’t be anxious,” it has the force of a moral command. It’s his moral will that we not be anxious. Or to say it more explicitly, anxiety is sin.
Anxiety is sin for two reasons. First, it’s a distrust of God. In Matthew 6:25-34, Jesus said that if our heavenly Father takes care of the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, will he not much more take care of our temporal needs? When I give way to anxiety, I’m in effect believing that God won’t take care of me.
Anxiety is also a lack of acceptance of God’s providence—his orchestrating all circumstances and events in his universe for his glory and the good of his people. Some believers have difficulty accepting the fact that God does in fact do this, and even those who believe this glorious truth often lose sight of it. Instead we focus on immediate causes of our anxiety rather than remembering that those causes are under God’s control.
Anxiety is one of my most persistent temptations. If you’re frequently tempted to anxiety as I am, can you recognize the types of circumstances that tend to make you anxious? Do you identify with me in chafing under God’s providential will for you when it differs from your own agenda? If so, I encourage you to ask God to give you faith to believe that his providential will for you in these circumstances flows from his infinite wisdom and goodness and is ultimately intended for your good. Ask him to give you a heart that is submissive to his providential will. (Excerpt taken from Respectable Sins)
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Friendship
But as joyfully, sacrificially, and affectionately invested as Paul can be, he remains remarkably free from those he loves and serves. He says elsewhere, “Am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ” (Galatians 1:10). The beauty of true friendship, godly friendship, Christ-exalting friendship is in the seeming contradictions — immense affection and consistent correction, real dependence and yet freedom from one another, great love and yet courageous truth.
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