Tuesday, December 29, 2015

HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY

Starting on my other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS on Nov 1...a 3 day series on HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY.

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Phillipians 4:6-7

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

       Let's face it...you are not going rid of your life of the causes of anxiety; there will always be rumors of wars and wars themselves, everything from nation to nation to person to person.

       But you can achieve control over your anxieties and sometimes an eradication of these bugaboos of the brain.

       I speak from recent personal experience.  A broken hip should b e a first class factory of anxiety production but I give you my word.  My anxiety factory has been working undertime as against overtime and I credit my Lord and a backlog of faith that has charged to the forefront and done me well.

       I've done this more than once...indeed my wife has always said "The bigger the problem the better you handle it."

       First, on the list for eclipsing or at least shrinking your anxiety is "Thanksgiving."

Make a list you are thankful for and check them twice. 

       It certainly beats having a pity party or a crying jag.  That's when emotions gone out of control take you where you don't want to go.

       In short, don't get into playing the "What if?" game or "What was?"  Deal with the good "What is?" truths. 

       Your left arm is paralyzed (I've been there)?  Become an expert on right arm accomplishments.  (My left never has regained all it'strengh or mobility.)

       You can't walk as well as once you could or not at all?

        Say a thanksgiving prayer for your limp or the invention  of the wheel chair does give you mobility, not the kind you would like but still mobility.

       You are having a vision problems, hearing problems, I haven't the time to name all the problems flesh can grow heir to but whatever is your problem...accentuate the positive ...otherwise the negative will accentuate on you.

       Actually, let's all join in an agree that because we are human we all are prone to worry...about real problems and in between problems and problems that really aren't problems at all. 

       And, yes, those of you who came here this morning with some kind of worry hanging around or that was hanging around not that long ago...raise your hand. 

       Please note...my own hand is raised.

       Alright... all of you have recently had some problems to worry about...or most of you...I did note some hands that weren't raised.

       I've used this Emma Bombeck story before but it is too good a story not to use again as we look at a prime example of how easy it is to worry about things that are a complete waste of time to worry about. 

       It is about a little boy named Donald and his attitude towards the first day of school. 

"My name is Donald. I don't know anything. I have new underwear, a loose tooth, and I didn't sleep last night because I'm worried. What if a bell rings and a man yells, 'Where do you belong,' and I don't know?

What if the trays in the cafeteria are too tall for me to reach?

What if my loose tooth comes out when we have our heads down and are supposed to be quiet?

Am I supposed to bleed quietly?

What if I splash water on my nametag and my name disappears and no one knows who I am?"

       Now, yes, I am aware that there are hormonal and chemical reasons for some people's anxieties and I definitely believe they should avail themselves of proper medicines that give relief. 

       Still, for all of the most of us, we need to turn to the great heavenly physician.

       One church sign put it well. It read, "If your knees are knocking, kneel on them."

       One person defined anxiety as a gap between one's demands and one's resources.

       I have a new computer with a new program Windows 7.  For  a brief time I was prepared to call it Wall 8 because it was blocking out the sermon I had just finished.  For a little while I was like Donald.  I didn't just make a mountain out of a molehill.  I started planting trees.

    I forgot for a moment a rather basic truth...keep things in proportion.

I prayed about it and Christ and common sense came charging in to slow my anxiety down...but for a bit I fed foolishness and earned what it gave me in return.

       I've heard anxiety called " unconscious blasphemy."  That's strong meat but think about it, if we can't pray and mean "Lord, thy will be done" and mean it because we trust the creator of our life both here and in the hereafter then we that lack of trust really is a bit of blasphemy.

       It's an old joke," You know, "I went to the doctor and I said, 'Doc, when I do this, it hurts.' And the doctor said, 'Don't do that'."

How many things have you been anxious about that were things that you knew before you got into them were probably going to create for you some problems.

       Some sins...some stupid decisions you knew were stupid decisions...past, present and future.  Learn from the past...don't fill up the future with more such stupid decisions and actions.
 
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