Pulling up to your
mailbox after a long day of work, you open it to find yet another wedding
invitation. Love apparently is in the air but not for you. You have gone to
many bridal showers and weddings yet you are still walking inside to cook for a
party of one. You desire to add more place settings is growing strong yet there
are no prospects. What is the deal?
You make your way to the
room to get out of your not so comfortable work clothes and walk to the kitchen
to make dinner. What fun is it to make dinner for one? All the work
and no one to show off your culinary skills to. Plus you hate leftovers. So
cereal for dinner it is!
As you lay on your couch
unwinding from your day, you turn on the television. Because it is
close to Valentine’s Day EVERYTHING that you flip through has to do with
relationships. You opt to turn off the television and just read. Readers are
leaders anyway right? You get lost in your new novel and next thing you know it
is time for bed. You rinse off your makeup, prepare for bed just to repeat the
routine all over the next morning.
Sound familiar? With
everyone around you seemingly living a very exciting life doing everything that
you so desire to do, it is very easy to be unsettled where you are. Philippians
4:6 says “Be anxious for nothing.” Okay easier said
than done but did the apostle Paul spend his evening eating cereal for dinner
and reading War and Peace?
Why does the Bible tell
us not to be anxious? Because all anxiety does is focus on tomorrow and make
you miss what God is doing in your life today. Anxiety and worry go hand in
hand. Basically it is saying that we don’t trust God to take care of our
desires or needs. We take the situation in our own hands trying to figure out
how to make it happen. To be anxious means that you are; full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear
of danger or misfortune; greatly worried; Ain’t nobody got time for that!
The
Bible tells us a couple of things about anxiety and worry. 1. Don’t worry about
tomorrow for it will worry about itself. 2. Worrying doesn’t add one
thing to your life. Psalms
139:16 “You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was
recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.” What we have to realize is that
before the foundations of the earth, God had already written the plans of your
life. With that being the case, worrying about tomorrow instead of living in
the present is nonproductive. It isn’t going to change a thing.
Anxiety
steals your peace. It gives you unsettling thoughts.and begins to reflect in
other areas of life. The root of anxiety boils down to fear. Fear is not of
God. You are afraid that what you are believing for, in this case a significant
other, won’t manifest. Those anxious thoughts begin to steal your quality of
life. John 10:10 “The enemy come but to steal, kill, and
destroy.” That is what anxiety does. Part B of the verse says that
Jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly! So
accepting anxiety in your life is accepting the enemy’s authority in that area.
Remember you have the authority over him. Do not allow him to take
dominion in any area of your life! God's perfect love casts out all fear.
Settling in this thought eliminates fear!
Being
anxious for a future time is not something that you are graced for. God gives
us grace day by day. This is the reason that we are unsettled. He didn’t give
you the resolve to worry about tomorrow or any other day. It is something
that he has already taken care of. That is not your responsibility. When you
take on worry you are taking God's job. He didn't hire you for that
position. Don't self promote.
Matthew 11:29-30
29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me
teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for
your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden
I give you is light.”
This is
the position that God wants us to take so there will be rest for our souls. His
burden is easy and light and anxiety is heavy and hard. I choose to work
smarter not harder so I choose to give my cares and anxieties to God so that I
can be weightless. What do you choose?
#thatsinglelifethough
Bekah
out!
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