I really mean that title!
April 2020
I have many, many journal entries inspired by anxiety. In my toddler years as a Christian, I really believed that, as a Christian, I shouldn’t have anxiety and I felt like a failure if I did. Then I bumped into reality! Very humbling, but oh so necessary and good. In 1988 I had cancer and this entry came out of that time of intense anxiety. As you read, think of your present fears. The Savior is the same. For cancer, Corona Virus, financial ruin or any fear that we may have. Jesus is the answer!
From the journal. . . August 1988
Lord – thank You for Your goodness. I don’t know Your definition of harm but the worst enemy I have been fighting is my thoughts and fears. I really think I have a choice about fear. It’s difficult not to fear sometimes – a lot lately – but You have said many times “Do not fear”*. So it is possible. You don’t allow anything to come into my life that You can’t get glory from. The cliché “Give it over to God” can have many meanings. What is good, is to believe that You truly do cause all things to work for good.* To believe You. I wonder how “life” would go if we would totally reject fear. . . not the respect for danger ‘fear’, like knowing that it’s not good to run into traffic, but ‘fear of the unknown’. Actually, there is no unknown because God Is. Any circumstance I go into, God has been there.* And He will go with me. I don’t know how chemo-therapy will be. But God knows and He has sent His Spirit, that He actually could be with me always. * God has been through it all. I know that’s true and especially when I consider the Christians that have gone through the same things and He has been with them. I know that to grasp this promise would be life changing. So Lord, help me to really grab on to it and practice. To use it daily.
*Isaiah 41:10, John 14:7, Joshua 1:9 *Romans 8:28, *Psalm 139:5, *John 14:16-17.
And I Believe God Said:
I will go with you. Of course. Remember that. I have been there and I am sovereign. I know the plans I have for you today and they are for good. Every day. Don’t dread the future. I am in it.
Ps 139:7-10. Matt. 28:20
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Yes, it’s so good to be reminded God is with us now and He will be with us in the future!! I wouldn’t want to be anywhere in time without Him!
Amen to that Debi!!!
It would be easy to fear and be anxious during these times but then I make myself remember the fearful times I have been through in the past. God has always been there with me and never failed me.
I know Kris and you are an inspiration of perseverence and faith!