Worries and Anxieties

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What are your worries and anxieties? What value do your worries and anxieties add to your life? Are you happy with them?

Worries and anxieties are an unwelcome part of life. They are a reality, but they do not add value or significance. Worries and anxieties rob us of God’s best for our lives.

Jesus asked this question about our worries, “Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” (Matthew 6:27, NIV).

There is no value in our worries or in our anxieties—they do not add value to our lives.

This is why the wise author of the Proverbs wrote, “Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.” (Proverbs 12:25, NIV).

This is why the Psalmist wrote, “When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.” (Psalm 94:19, NIV).

God’s comfort brings us great joy, even in the face of our anxieties. In the face of our worries and anxieties we can find the comfort we need in the presence of God.

May we face our worries and anxieties with God’s consolation and joy.

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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