TUESDAY DECEMBER 3
“Don’t
worry about anything.” Php 4:6 NLT
WORRY
(1)
Identify
the source of your worries. Did you grow up in a fear-filled family, always feeling
insecure, never measuring up, and never hearing words of affirmation and
approval? Are you listening to the prophets of doom, hearing only about what’s
wrong, and how much worse it’s going to get? What’s the source of your anxiety;
what feeds your worries? Until you express your fears you can’t expel them.
Putting your worries into words disrobes them. They look weak and silly
standing there naked. In his novel Life
of Pi, Yann Martel’s main character, Pi, finds himself adrift at sea on a
lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal tiger as his companion. While on the lifeboat,
Pi begins to analyze his fears, both of the sea and the tiger. He gives this
counsel: “You must fight hard to express your [fear]. You must fight hard to
shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if you open yourself to
further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who
defeated you.” So pull back the curtain and expose your fears, each and every one.
Like vampires, they can’t stand the sunlight. Financial fears, relationship
fears, professional fears, safety fears—call them out in prayer. Drag them out
and make them stand before God. How do you do that? “Don’t worry about
anything; instead, pray about everything…Then you will experience God’s peace,
which exceeds anything we can understand” (vv. 6-7 NLT).
Taken
from the Word for You Today Devotional
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