Maybe I hide this, or maybe it’s so evident that people don’t mention it to me… but I worry about things a lot. In fact, I worry about stupid things more than I worry about important things. I worry about things at work that are fine, I worry about how people "view me," I worry that I’ll get an e-mail and not respond fast enough, I worry that I’ve been rude to someone, I worry that I’ve missed some unknown step in "protocol" that was unspoken, and I worry that people I really care about won’t like me anymore, and I worry if people will notice if I am anxious about these things! But at the same time while I am anxious about these little things, big things don’t seem to effect me. I’m never nervous about going on a mission trip. I wasn’t nervous when we bought the house, or when interviewing for any ministry job, (haven’t done that in a while and I hope to never do it again!) or speaking in front of people, or meeting "famous" people, or things that are supposed to make you anxious!
I know I am not alone in being anxious… and I think these things I suffer from are funny enough to talk about. And with that, I’ll remind myself of this… Phillipians 4:6, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." Interesting observation about the author of that verse… he was hunted down like an animal, imprisoned, and executed… heck, he likely wrote that verse in jail… be anxious about nothing… OK Paul… if you say so!
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