I have so many other words that I could place in the space for “nothing” in the above quote. A friend is desperately ill in the intensive care unit of the hospital. Another is undergoing his last available option in his treatment for a blood disorder. A third faces surgery on Thursday, and her husband is undergoing chemotherapy in his own cancer battle. There are relatives with disabilities impacting their day-to-day lives, and questions in my mind about what I can or should do to help. Smaller issues, like traveling mercies for a son on his way home, crowd for space in my anxious attentions.
And yet God would have none of it. Oh, I know without a shadow of a doubt that what matters to me, matters to Him. It’s the anxiety over the issues that he wants me to have no part of. And that’s because these issues are nothing compared to His ability and willingness to deal with them, if I would only place them in His care. And when I do, then I have nothing left to worry about. If I begin to be anxious over them again, it’s because I didn’t fully release them to Him in the first place, and I need to backtrack and repeat the procedure until I know that I have truly left them in His capable hands.
He doesn’t guarantee that we will receive the answer we seek in each situation. But we must as a sign of trust give them fully to Him to deal with as He knows best, and believe that whatever answer we get, it’s for the best, whether we understand that yet or not.
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;” (Philippians 4:6 NKJV)
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