Prayerful consideration behind anger and openly speaking truthfully of my fears has lifted me out of the paralysis of fear.

Peter has got to be one of my favorite Bible guys. He made every mistake (read: sin) possible and Jesus loved him and accepted him all the same.

Jesus made choices for his own well-being and achieved everything without hurry, but rather with attention and care of the moment.

We need only bring things to the Light, to Christ, and He makes things new and sets us free. anxiety and Christ: Shame need not follow us

That is the trap of comparison – we think ‘better’, and we forget that really, we should think ‘different.’ Christ created us not to be compared, but to be unique.

In those cases where we do things that are contrary to what we ‘normally’ do or things that we think would be better, that is the Spirit at work in us, the Spirit of Self-control.

But we have seen panic and anxiety around the globe, disinfectant and face masks flying off the shelves. There are many, many people with the what-ifs that are not just a stream of worry but have created rapids and waterfalls of worry. God is bigger than our fear.

So, it in the Spirit that we have the self-discipline necessary to capture these thought patterns and subject them to Christ. Speak truth in the face of anxiety.

When we are the center of our world, it easy to see why we would worry. God works best when he is at the center of our lives, of our thoughts, of our concern.

His word, scripture, will secure us to stand firm against fear, anxiety, worry and concern, which all fall away in the face of His love. Anxiety is a spiritual battle.