IN NOTHING BE ANXIOUS !!!

Once there was a university professor who was a proven pessimist, that some of his colleagues sought to encourage him to look on the brighter side of things and remarked: “Isn’t this a lovely morning, with the sun shining brightly, the birds singing gaily and the grass looking so fresh and green?” But “Oh this won’t last,” was all he said.

Alas!  many of us are like this block-headed professor; our minds are so obsessed with our difficulties that we have no appreciation of the grace of God, so we have no thanksgiving to offer Him and continue our weary way with sighs and murmurings.

Have your ever watched workmen engaged on the construction of a building as they stand at three different levels of the scaffolding and pass bricks from the lowest level to mid-level and from there to the top?

The work goes on swiftly as long as long as each brick, when it reaches the lowest level, at once passed on to the level above.

What if the man in the middle did not hand on each brick as it came? What if the man at the top level refused to receive the bricks? The poor man in the middle would be crushed by the load. That very thing happens to us continually in the unseen realm.

When the first trouble reaches us we fail to send it on to a higher level, and soon we feel pressed and fretful. Along comes a second trouble, and a third, and by degrees we are worn out and collapse under the load.

As soon as any anxiety threatens us, we must immediately pass our burden on to a higher level.

Let us learn to follow the directions of the Lord has given us for our release from the down drag of care: “In everything” – big things as well as little things – “by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests are made known to God.”

It is possible for you and me only if we heed the Lord’s simple directions. In the realm of men burdens are dropped by telling a trustworthy friend of our trouble and then handing over the matter to him? Is the Lord less trustworthy than man?

Let’s remember it’s not only our trouble we ought to make known to him but God demands that everything that happens to us ought to be brought to Him with thanksgiving.

And finally let’s not forget that all that happens to us has been ordained by Him who so loved us that He gave His life for us, and His love cannot err.

Dear friend, if you could believe this, your every request will be made with thanksgiving.

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