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“When (Not If) I Am Afraid, I Will Trust in You”

  “Don’t be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 4:6-8

Heavenly Father, our world feels like a “petri dish”—perfect for growing the emotional-bacteria of fear, anxiety, and worry. Not-so-Social Media, news outlets—even strategies used for selling us household products, they all realize how vulnerable we are to anxiety. Our fears make them a lot of money.

So, we run to you today, confident of your welcome, needful of your peace, thankful for your sovereignty. Nothing in this passage suggests only spiritually immature people experience feelings of anxiety, fear, and worry. That’s nonsense, and a recipe for adding guilt and shame onto our anxieties. Rather, you’re calling us to the “stewardship” of those feelings. King David said, “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” (Psalm 56:3). We want to do the same. Abba Father. Help us. Free us.

Better to cast our cares on you (1 Peter 5:7) than to keep cramming them into the back backs we lug through the day. So. with palms open, we thank you for being the God of peace, who freely gives your “surpassing-all-understanding-peace” to your children. You don’t give us certain guarantees we’d love to have, but you DO give us superabundant grace.

Before Delta is done, before the Day of perfect health arrives, before your glory fills the earth, before we know the outcome of our children’s stories, before wolves and lambs lie down together—before cancer, evil, racism, human trafficking, and meanness expire, we will trust in you, beloved Father. So very Amen we pray, in Jesus’ loving and strong name.

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