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Anxiety

Has this ever happened to you? Everything is going well, there are no major problems, but you get this unsettling feeling that the other proverbial shoe is about to drop. I cannot pinpoint where it is coming from. And it is so weird because I truly am thankful for what the Lord is doing in my life...but somehow I can't shake this feeling. And I hear the Holy Spirit whispering, "Be anxious for nothing..." And the stubbornness in me whispers back, "Easier said than done." Not the right attitude to have, but that doesn't make my statement any less true. At the heart of the problem is an embarrassing lack of faith. I have been realising it more and more in recent weeks, as my family studies Hebrews chapter 11, sometimes known as Faith Hall of Fame. Those stalwarts of the Old Testament had a crazy, radical faith in God. To my ultimate shame, they did not have half, or any, of the references that we have, but they displayed a faith in God that I cannot seem