Message of Scripture: 11/06/2021

 

Today’s message from Scripture is 1 Pet. 5:7; “Casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”

 

It is interesting that, in the Greek, the word for anxiety, or worry, is the same term as not to worry or be anxious, but without what is called the alpha privative. Putting the Greek letter alpha, or our letter a, in front of a word, negates it. So, the same word for worry, with the addition of one letter, becomes not to worry.

 

Satan uses every opportunity to destroy us. He wants to destroy the peace we have, to leave us unsettled in our thinking by the circumstances we face in life, to not trust the promises of God, and see life from the worst possible perspective. This is what happens when we leave God out of the equation of life, and think the burdens of life are ours alone to bear. However, like the word for anxiety, or worry, just by adding one element to our lives, worry can be eliminated, and peace restored. That element is found in God’s promises for us, fulfilled in Christ.

 

In Christ we have all spiritual blessings (Eph. 1:3). We have God’s love, peace, joy, hope, mercy, grace, and everything else needed to have confidence in life. God has a plan for every life, and if we trust in Him, if we live for Him, that plan, though it may come with tribulations at times (John 16:33), ends in eternal life. Paul reminds us, “For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out” (1 Tim. 6:7). Nothing physical will endure beyond today, but what we are in Christ goes with us forever. He also reminds us, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Rom. 8:18). God is always with us, and no matter what life brings our way, in Christ we are more than conquerors (Rom. 8:37).

 

Add God to your life, and your anxieties can be overcome by the strength God supplies. God bless.

 

Robert