ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (Second in new series)

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There is a classic remark I love to repeat when calling attention about worrying so much about tomorrow. It reads "If course worry about tomorrow is good for you. Most things I worry about happening tomorrow never happen."

And then...

Have you heard about the man who had a plane to catch at a very early hour and then having set his alarm , sat on the edge of his bed all night long to make sure it went off on time.

He earned his PhD in anxiety. He had worry down to a science.

He believed that living one day at a time meant never or seldom sleeping so he would always know what time of day it was.

So then, where and how can a pound of fortitude be found to control a pound of fear before it becomes a ton of anxiety?

And therein lies the rub, because many a fear that was can become an anxiety that isn’t.

Timothy 1:7 offers a spiritual pilgrimage as a way of weighing worrisome things properly. “God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.”

It’s all about imaging. Such as placing your fears in your hands and then handing those fears to God. Imagery does that…picture it and whatever you are imaging comes alive…praying hands for instance…you can pray without placing your hands in a prayer position but the imagery just makes it more personally powerful.

And when you do pray…don’t just tip your toe in the idea…immerse yourself…from the tip of that exploring toe to the top of your head…as wide and deep as you soul can stretch…I like the way one preacher put it, “Saturate yourself with prayer.”

And have you perhaps gotten yourself in trouble by borrowing too much. Well, don’t do it when anxiety is anywhere close…don’t borrow trouble by imaging it…all imagery isn’t good.

In particular if there are anxious moments just over the horizon. Wait till you get there. That shadow you are worrying about may by the time you get there have you standing in the sun.

And lastly …initiate an adoption program…adopt some scriptures that have great meaning and then let them raise you right. Make them a part of your family of thoughts. Invite them to breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Have them with you when you stop for a mid morning snack…so that as you feed your mind your whole body tingles because of the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Joining hands with David and his words also has a winning to it, “Submit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him…(Psalm 37:5)

If there is a truth that should be written across the roof of the sky it is this. When one can say and mean “…though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” (Psalm 23) it is an affirmation that has the touch of miracle in it. Why? Because when one is not afraid to die, one is not afraid to live.

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Below is a quote from tomorrow’s blog entitled
ANXIETY, FIGHT IT OR FEED IT (Third in new series)

It was said of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, that he arose each morning at four A.M., preached over 40,000 times and traveled over 250,000 miles on horseback. And, in the course of all of this, he never hurried, he never worried and he never let foolish anxieties wear him down.

BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on Wyrick’s Writing’s)

click on URL below to go to Wyrick’s Writings
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/

It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010 (quote from Sunday Jan 2 2011 Heavenly Construction Program)

“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.

It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.

“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.
It’s called purpose, and…”

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V. Neil Wyrick’s ninth book is THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN and is now available on amazon.com at some rather good discount prices

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