Tuesday... Certain kinds of activity can bring about anxiety or do they?

Margaret, and I had an activity this morning that can bring great anxiety. We had to be at the hospital early for Margaret to have a thirty minute procedure. And it was successful and she is fine.

Now for many just saying hospital brings great anxiety and as a retired Pastor I understand the whys.

There are so many different activities that can bring great anxiety to people. I'm sure you have some of those anxiety activities. And God knows what they are because he knows everyone of you and he knows me.

After spending time at the hospital this morning I came across some verses in Romans 5 and they speak to us and our anxieties. Romans 5:1 (NLT) says, "Therefore, since we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us." Now, peace is the opposite of anxiety and a relationship with Christ can give us peace and also an understanding and an appreciation for our anxieties and problems and trials and their undeserved privilege.

Verse 2 says, "Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory." Now confidence and joy are way different than anxiety. And they come from our faith which brings us to a place of undeserved privilege where we stand with confidence and joy as we look forward to sharing God's glory or another way to say it, to make God look good.

The Apostle Paul then says in verses 3-5, "We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love."

God loves us and He wants us to be filled with his love and to see our trials and problems as instruments that develop endurance and strength of character and confident hope which will not lead us to disappointment but to really knowing how dearly God loves us and then for us to be filled with that love.

We have been made right in God's sight by our faith, and from that we can rejoice when we run into problems and trials. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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