Anxiety Cuts The Mustard - Message #376

At root, anxiety is a control issue. We think things in our lives are out of control. On the job, we just don't seem to be able to get hold of the proper handle. At home there is a drinking problem. Mom or dad gets out of control, we're frightened. Perhaps infidelity or the death of a spouse or a child is part of the picture. It's like an earthquake hit you. Everything is shattered. The 'Richter scale of worry' is over the top.

We need to remember God. Yes, I'm talking about the Sovereign God of the Bible. Although things may be out of control from our perspective, they are never out of God's control. When Jesus came into the world, He came preaching the gospel of the kingdom. He proclaimed the Good News that the Sovereign God is King of all. He rules His universe and everything in it. We can trust God and we get to Him through Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me" (John 14:6).

This is why we pray in the name of Jesus. These words are a seed of hope for the anxious. Christianity, faith in Christ, faith in the Sovereign God through Christ, brings stability to life. This seed of hope needs to grow and flourish in our lives. Anxiety cuts at the root of this hope. Here is how Jesus puts it. "And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful" (Matthew 13:22).

You desperately need the tiny mustard seed of hope in God's promise.

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