Be Anxious For Nothing

-WORRY- Worry has become a way of life. We try to maintain some semblance of normalcy but the worries of the day creep in and undo the calm you’ve been trying to build.

Never worry about anything. Instead, in every situation let your petitions be made known to God through prayers and requests, with thanksgiving. Then God's peace, which goes far beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your hearts and minds in union with the Messiah Jesus. (Php 4:6-7)

Thanksgiving is key. I know it’s hard to find reasons to be thankful when you see the world falling down all around you but you have to find reasons for joy. Just yesterday my wife and I, in an attempt to maintain normalcy, were going over bills and the medical bills which have added up over the past few months through weeklong hospital stays and various other tests starting to become overwhelming. You have to trust in the Lord. Even when it seems like there’s a pit so deep that you won’t be able to climb out of, especially with both of us being out of work because of this current pandemic situation, you have to know that you’re going to be good. And you’re going to be good because we have a Father in heaven who’s looking out for us (Matt 6:25-34). Not even an hour after it was all so overwhelming, God made His move. We got a phone call telling us that quite a few of those medical bills were going to be taken off of our plate. Halleluyah!

There’s always a reason to give thanks. Maybe it’s not always going to be so extreme and good, but you have to look for the reasons to be thankful for what you’ve been given. I mentioned a weeklong hospital stay earlier. A little over a month ago my wife was hospitalized due to developing bilateral pneumonia after having some ‘mystery respiratory thing’ that couldn’t be diagnosed at the time. It was hard to find reasons to be thankful at that time, but we had to. Over the course of that week there were a lot of trying times but each and every day we grew closer. And I thank God for that!

What can you find to be thankful for today?