“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only empties today of its strengths.” – Charles Spurgeon

Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil. It’s basically when worry overtakes your mind. It is real. It does happen. Some will never understand while others fight it almost daily. The enemy likes to use it as a tool against our soul to strip our joy in life completely away. But we must be strong and fight that off. Me personally, I know that’s easier said then done though.

“Fear thou not; for I Am with thee: be not dismayed; for I Am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” Isaiah 41:10

In God is where we find strength and comfort.

Here lately, I have been trying my best to stay above anxiety. It’s super hard at times but I know this:

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

It feels like everything is just crashing down on me and my personal, natural instinct is to fix it all immediately. The thing is, it’s not stuff that I have control over. It’s not stuff that I am at liberty to fix right now. So then I become overwhelmed — wanting to act out but all the while I know it’s not time yet.

In my moment of wanting to fix it all and just having an emotional pity-party, this scripture was spoken to my heart:

“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10

It let me know that I just need to hush up and be still. Simple but ground breaking for me. It helps me to release everything that I’m trying to carry and let God do with it what He does best. Work it out.

When God gets finished with your situations, they turn out beautiful in their own way and they always bring Him glory. It’s actually a pretty amazing thing. You give God something that’s ugly and falling apart and He fixes it all and in the end, He is exalted above the mess. He takes something that seems hopeless and by the time He is done, there is a beautiful hope through Him that replaces your anxiety.

Sometimes, we get in a hurry. Be patient. When it’s Gods timing, He will open the door. He is working where we can’t see and He will show Himself in His due time. We get through not by what we see physically, but by faith.

“(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)” II Corinthians 5:7

This morning, I was spilling my heart out to Him again, trying to fight off my anxiety. Psalm 46:10 was given to me again.

It’s okay to be still and not do anything. Your lack of action frees up the circumstance for God to have control.

Be still.