These past while I feel like I have lost the plot. I have always struggled with getting stressed easily but over the past while I seem to have become very anxious. Anxiety is "distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune:" (taken from dictionary.com). Last night I had to decide to say "ok, this is how I feel and it is alright to feel like this, God doesn't want his child to be a stress head anymore, he wants his child to be living in freedom and to have peace and joy". This is the hope that I am clinging onto when this anxiety comes. That God is taking me through this and out of anxiety and stress and into freedom and peace.
To anyone reading this that is struggling over any problems in the mind, cling onto God and his truth. Read the word, speak out the word. Know his truth and remove satan's lies.
God says in Philippians 4:7 "And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will gaurd your heart and minds in Christ Jesus"
He also says in Galatians 5:1 "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery".
I am preaching to myself here, and half of writing this is to help me to understand this idea of living in freedom. It is hard to remember that Christ has set us free and to not submit to the lies of the devil that inslaves us because in the moment satan's lies feel so real, but we must chose God, we must chose his word, his truth and remove all lies from the devil, we must cling onto verses like Philippians 4:7 and speak it to ourselves when we are feeling anxious.
We must remember Christ has set us free and stand firm in the fact that Christ died so that we would not have to live in stress and anxiety but in peace and joy.
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