Antidote to anxiety!
Verse for Today: Monday, January 20, 2014
Psalms 94:19 - When
my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul.
There are times in our
lives when we are unable to share some of our intimate burdens with anyone
else. These burdens stay in our minds and get enlarged and multiplied as we
dwell in it for some time. When we think more about our burdens and their
consequences, fear comes to have its cruel grip over us by showing us
the consequences of the objects of anxiety. As
the fear and anxiety multiply, more burdens emerge to suffocate us. As we think
more about it, negative thoughts increase to make us believe that what we have
feared will come true. But the
pressure of anxiety will make us forget the
fact that our Lord knows what these concerns and anxious thoughts are and that
nothing will happen to us without His knowledge and consent. He will not allow
His dear children to be hurt by the enemy. He knows the strategies of the enemy who
tries to create snags on our way forward and block us from reaching the
milestones that our Lord has planned for us. When our enemies try to devour us
with their fleshly tactics of various kinds, our Lord will be our buffer.
They will try to despise, ridicule and challenge us to see how we would
come out of the traps that they lay around us. They warn us about the
consequences of their traps and try to drain us of our spiritual energies
through fear, doubt and anxiety to weaken our faith. Their repeated attacks often take away our
defense and make us lose our faith in our God. But our God has promised to keep us safe and secure. When we abound in anxious thoughts and try to use human methods
to get away from the snares around us, He comes to
console us with His delightful words. His comfort will
strengthen us to keep going to accomplish His
purpose in our lives.
Dear friend, are you at
the bottom of the valley of anxiety and fear because of your situations? Are you slowly losing your hope
and confidence in life? But when you go deep down in the mire of anxiety and
fear, Your Lord comes to hold your hands to lift you up from it all. He sends
His words of comfort and hope to console you. He reminds you today that He is
in control of your situations and will guard you against all eventualities. His
words of comfort will delight your soul and strengthen your heart. His Spirit
will energize you to put all your faith in Him to take you forward. His
promises will echo in your hearts to reassure you. It was His
delightful consolations that kept David going in times of tumult and turbulence.
God’s consolations which Jacob received at Bethel kept him going until God
settled his life and future. His promises spoke to Nehemiah all through the
days of the reconstruction of the walls of Jerusalem. Paul found God’s promises
to be his pillar of strength through all his missionary journeys. Daniel found
it to be his source of encouragement and confidence in the lion’s den. The
Jewish youth found it to be their resting place in the furnace of the emperor. Elijah
had it as patience for his daily bread at Cherith and Zarephath. Today the Lord sends His mighty messages of consolations for us to
delight in. It helps us forget the false and fearful thoughts the enemy brings
to us. Let us cling on to them and ignore
the anxious thoughts. We can take our burdens to the Lord and leave it there because He knows what to do with it. Even in seemingly impossible circumstances and situations, we can 'laugh at
the impossibilities of the world' and lean on
to the Lord who makes it all possible for His
children.
1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your care upon (Jesus) for
He cares for you.
Thought
for Today
God’s promises are potent
antidote to destroy the fabricated and false power of anxiety.
Prayer for Today
Dear Lord Jesus: Hide me under
your wings when anxiety and fear saber rattle against me. Amen!
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