Philippians 4, Anxious for
Nothing
Paul
certainly had plenty of reasons to feel anxious. Sitting in a Roman prison, he
didn’t know if he would be released or put to death. Writing to the believers
in Phillipi, he urged them, be anxious for nothing.”
Anxiety
and its companion, worry, do their best to immobilize believers. People are
anxious about the future; they are anxious about events that haven’t but could
happen. (That’s called anticipatory anxiety). They are anxious about their
health, their physical problems. Anxiety makes people fearful and distressed.
So,
what can believers do about their anxiety? Paul gives the answer, “in
everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be
known to God.” When we give our anxiety to God, He replaces it with His peace
that ‘surpasses all understanding.” God’s peace is beyond comprehension because
it makes no sense -circumstances seem to require anxiety, but instead we feel
God’s peace. When we feel anxiety rising, we should turn to God in prayer. He
will give us the peace He promised.
Remember
to meditate on “whatever things are true (if you don’t know the facts, don’t
worry about it, most of what we worry about is what could be but not what
really is), whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever
things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good
report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate
on these things.”
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David Jeremiah Study Bible. Through the Bible by J. Vernon McGee
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