The Cure for Anxiety

What is God calling you to do about today's trouble?  To help you answer that question, imagine two circles:  one six feet in diameter and another six inches in diameter.  What you need to do today is in the little six-inch circle.  Whatever is in the larger six-foot circle you have to leave in God's hands, because you can't control or do anything about those worries.

In every area of your life where there is trouble, God is calling you to a small step of faith and love.  He is not calling you to solve what is wrong.  What God is calling you to do is always less than the bad things that might happen.  Your troubles do not rest on your shoulders.  You are living in a world where there is trouble, but you are in relationship with a God who is in charge of his world.  He has a purpose for you in every situation where there is trouble:  God is calling you to be constructive in a very small corner of his world.  There is a n ecology motto:  "Think globally, act locally."  apply this motto to your day-to-day life.  Think globally by remembering every day that God is in charge of the world, and he is watching over his sheep.  And then act locally by asking God each day to show you what small, constructive thing he is calling you to do.

David Powlison

Wow!  I don't know about you but that really help put things back into perspective for me.  I was just sitting on my couch moments ago looking outside at the gloomy day thinking of all the things that have been going on are are going on around me.  Thinking of each of my children and where they are at in life right now.  Thinking of my marriage, of how my body hurts all the time....the list went on and on.  I ended up feeling very over whelmed and just wanted to shut out the world and hide under a cozy blanket.  Instead I got up finished my coffee and made waffles for Sara and her friend for breakfast.

I'm so thankful that God is there watching over and taking care of the big things in my life and then helping me with the little things that with his strength and wisdom I can do.

Matthew 6:25-34New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Anxiety

25 “For this reason I say to you, [a]do not be worried about your [b]life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the [c]air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27 And who of you by being worried can add a single[d]hour to his [e]life? 28 And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, 29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much moreclothe you? You of little faith! 31 Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But [f]seek first [g]His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be [h]added to you.

34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will [i]care for itself. [j]Each day has enough trouble of its own.