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BE ANXIOUS IN NOTHING
FRIDAY, JULY 29
Philippians 4:6

Proverbs 24:19-20

 

“Make me to understand

the way of thy precepts…”

 

BE ANXIOUS IN NOTHING
 
It has always been among men to worry and to be anxious, and perhaps more so today than ever, when the pressure of life is heavier and the constraint of circumstances more imperious. Are there not hours in which the clouds gather densely over the Ark of God, and the stoutest hearts tremble? When the Christian soul looks on his family of little ones, sleeping soundly, knowing that they will certainly awake hungry for food, and aware that the cupboard is bare, would he have no tinge of anxiety?
 
It is at such times that the Apostle bade us pray. Philippians 4:6: “…let your requests be made known unto God.” We do not have to agonise before Him, as though, like the priests of Baal, who cried and cut themselves, we shall move Him by our anguish. Calmly, quietly, simply, make your requests known. Take your burden into His presence and lay it down there. He is your Father. He who made the body, and gave it you, will see to the supply of its needs. Your health, your children, the condition of His Church, are all dear to Him who notices a falling sparrow, and by whom the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
 
We shall not escape life’s discipline. We may expect to abound here, and to be abased there. But amid all, peace, God’s white-winged sentinel-angel, shall come down to keep the heart with its affections, the mind with its thoughts. Worry, unrest, anxiety will stand without, as the noise of the street breaks in vain on the double windows of the city counting-house, whilst the child of God learns humbly and patiently the lesson of his Father’s love. Careful for nothing; prayerful and thankful in everything.
(F.B. Meyer)
 
THOUGHT: Why do I not rest in my Lord?
PRAYER: Father, may I always look to Thee for the peace that my heart needs in a world where no peace can be found.

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