Fearful Anxieties
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What cares and concerns weigh heavily upon you? Do you have fears and anxieties?
Fear and anxiety go hand in hand. When we are afraid, we feel anxious. When we experience anxieties, we fear the worst. Fear and anxiety feed off of each other.
The word of God calls us to faithful and secure trust in God, which produces the rest and peace of God for the follower of Jesus.
In Moses’s final speech, the book of Deuteronomy, God spoke to his downtrodden people—Israel, saying, “It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.” (Deuteronomy 31:8, ESV).
God goes before us. God is with us. God will not leave us. God will not abandon us. Therefore, we can be courageous and peacefully confident. We do not need to be fearful or anxious, because God is with us and for us, and will not let us be dismayed.
May we put away all fearful anxieties and proclaim with the Psalmist, “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.” (Psalm 56:3, ESV).
In Christ alone, Robbie
A Prayer For Trustfulness In Times Of Worry And Anxiety: “Most loving Father, you will us to give thanks for all things, to dread nothing but the loss of you, and to cast all our care on the One who cares for us. Preserve us from faithless fears and worldly anxieties, and grant that no clouds of this mortal life may hide from us the light of that love which is immortal, and which you have manifested unto us in your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (#80, Book Of Common Prayer, 2019).
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