The news about anxiety is alarming, but there is also good news related to worry and anxiety.
If you suffer from an anxiety disorder, you are not crazy. You are not alone. You are not beyond hope.
God has given us amazing resources to pursue healing. Doctors who specialize in this. Medicines that help. Therapists who specialize in treating anxiety disorders. Groups that provide care & support. A God who loves you. A church that wants to embrace you.
Jesus doesn’t just tell us to “stop worrying” and leave the rest to us. He gives us a kingdom to live in. A kingdom with a good Heavenly Father that will never perish, spoil, or fade. A kingdom where worry doesn’t have to control our lives.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-27, 33-34
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7
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