Anxiety. In the United States approximately one out of five people are on some form of anti-depressant prescriptions! People all around us are struggling with worry and fear because they do not know or do not have any security or assurance in this life.
Disciples have a foundation in King Jesus. They know He loves them. They know they are valuable to Him. They know that they will always be heard when they cry out to Him. They have a track record with Him. He will never leave them nor forsake them. That’s His promise to them!
Today, all around us in this world that has rejected God in His son. Jesus, people suffer the consequences of that disconnection. The disconnection creates a dissonance in their soul, a distress in their being, a disconcerting feeling that life is not right and no idea how to bring it back to peace.
But peace is a gift from Jesus: “Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]” (John 14:27, AMP)
Truly, the Bible has foretold the reality of the generation we live in: “The wicked are miserable all day long!” (Job 15:20, Smith Expanded Version) While we ache for those around us and bring them the hope of heaven through the forgiveness of sins by repentance, we must also guard ourselves against the infection of this very communicable emotion. It is so easy to get our eyes off of Jesus and Heaven and become selfish and anxious, for the thing is that our Father promises He will give us because we are more valuable to Him than we could ever imagine.
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