Classic Quotes From Classic Ministers

Classic Quotes From Classic Ministers

The Solution for Anxiety

1 Peter 5:6-7

Do you sometimes feel as if you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? Burdens come in all forms, but they have one thing in common—they weigh us down and wear us out. And the longer we carry them, the heavier they seem. Unless we deal with them properly, they can cloud our thinking, interfere with our work, and affect our family life.

The world’s answers for anxiety are temporary at best, but Jesus Christ offers the only permanent solution. He invites us to cast our worries and concerns on Him because He cares for us. He’s our faithful High Priest who sympathizes with our weaknesses and intercedes for us with His Father (Heb. 4:15; Heb. 7:25).

As the Son of Man, Jesus experienced firsthand the difficulties and burdens of earthly life. He knew how to live on meager financial resources without feeling anxious (Matt. 8:20) and how to trust His Father while under great emotional distress (Luke 22:42-44). He experienced betrayal by Judas Iscariot and rejection by His own people. And while Jesus never sinned, He faced temptations just as we do.

If you are struggling under the pressures of daily living, what is keeping you from giving your burden to Christ? Perhaps you’ve tried, but the heavy load of concern just seems to keep rolling back onto your shoulders. It takes humility to admit we can’t handle things ourselves, and it takes trust to allow God to work the situation out according to His will. But if we’ll surrender the burden to Him, the only thing we have to lose is our anxiety.

~Dr. Charles F. Stanley~

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BIBLE MEDITATION: Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 11:18-19 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: When your children are little, it’s always good to have family worship, to start the day with the Word of God. Now, my wife and tried all kinds of things with our kids for family worship. I want to give you one of the simplest, easiest forms of family worship. I don’t know why I didn’t discover it a long time ago. It is such a blessing. We still do it with our grandchildren, and with our grown children at breakfast when they’re there. We just let one of the little children who are old enough to read take the Bible and choose a proverb. They can choose it at random. Or, since Proverbs has 31 chapters—basically the same as the number of days in the month—choose a proverb from the corresponding day. If it’s the seventh, choose from the seventh chapter of Proverbs, and read a proverb, just one. And let that child explain what he thinks that proverb means.  Then everyone else just talk about it for a few moments. It is so simple. But when your children are learning those proverbs and having to think about what they mean, you are giving them distilled wisdom, a nugget of truth they can carry with them to school and to work. ACTION POINT: Give your children and grandchildren wise instruction, but let that instruction be joined with training. Train up a child. ~Adrian Rogers~ _____________________________ Let us fix our eyes on Jesus! (Octavius Winslow) "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith!" We cannot keep our eyes too exclusively or too intently fixed on Jesus.  All salvation is in Him.  All salvation proceeds from Him.  All salvation leads to Him.  And for the assurance and comfort of our salvation, we are to repose believingly and entirely on Him.  Christ must be all!  Christ the beginning,  Christ the center,  Christ the end.  Oh sweet truth to you who are sensible of your poverty, vileness, and insufficiency, and of the ten thousand flaws and failures of which, perhaps, no one is cognizant but God and your own soul!  Oh the blessedness--to turn from self, and rest in Christ:    a full Christ,    a loving Christ,    a tender Christ,  whose heart's love never chills,  from whose eye darts no reproof,  from whose lips breathes no sentence of condemnation!  "He whose daily life is a fixing his eyes on Jesus, has heaven on his way to heaven!" Henry Law "And when Christ, who is your life, appears--then you also will appear with Him in glory!" Colossians 3:4