Anxiety
Anxiety has a way of convincing you that if you think about a problem long enough, you can somehow control the outcome. So your mind keeps running. It replays conversations, predicts worst-case scenarios, imagines future disappointments, and tries to solve problems that have not even happened yet. By the end of the day, you are exhausted, not because of what happened, but because of everything your mind carried. The difficult thing about anxiety is that it often disguises itself as responsibility. It feels productive. It feels necessary. It feels like you’re preparing for the future. But most anxious thoughts are simply attempts to carry tomorrow before God ever asked you to. You were never created to hold the weight of every possible outcome. Jesus understood this tendency in the human heart. That is why He said in Matthew 6:27, “And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?” Anxiety promises control, but it delivers exhaustion. It asks you to carr...
