Anxiety Is Disbelief

The fall term at the Bible College is rushing off. For several months I have been desperately pursuing an online income opportunity. I have entered into a to me totally new community on the Internet. I admit it: I have worried a lot about my economy, because in this hour I do not have any income, and I have to pay for tuition, for my son's school, I have debt to pay off and other expenses. In this I have ignored the Lord's command Mt.6:31-33 ”Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink? Or, With what shall we be clothed? For the nations seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that your have need of all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.”

This is our heavenly Father's guarantee for us. He is our provider! I have been reminded of this so many times recently. So I do have to take it seriously. Even in the Sunday service today the sermon was about this subject. Have faith in Him that He will provide for you. He does not come too late. I often tend to think ”Can I really trust God that He will provide for me? What if I help God so that I am sure to be able to pay my bills?” But this attitude is really an expression of disbelief. To worry and being anxious is to distrust God!!!

Do you know this: you are anxious about a matter, and it keeps on coming up in your mind all the time. Your thoughts return to this matter all the time. But what good does it do?? Following the verses above Jesus says: ”Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow shall be anxious for its own things. Sufficient to the day is the evil of it.” (Mt.6:34). Anxiety does you no good at all! To be anxious in this way equals meditating. And if we believe in the power of meditating (as a Christian I do), then we should stay far away from thoughts of this kind. Words are seeds and they are powerful to create what they say. If we sow positive words from the Bible in our mind, we reap positive biblical thoughts. If we sow negative anxious words in our minds we reap a negative worldly and distrusting mindset.

So my assignment to you, dear reader and to my self is to surround yourself with positive biblical truths in order to undermine anxiety and disbelief and a worldly mindset.