TISHRI 30
Anxious About Nothing
“DO NOT FRET OR HAVE ANY ANXIETY ABOUT ANYTHING, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition
(definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to
God.” (Phi 4:6 AMPC,
emphasis mine)
In the 1980’s, a video
arcade game was introduced that made history: Pac-Man. Almost an overnight success, it is still
popular today, and has many variations on the original theme that first came
out more than 30 years ago. Our Elohim
has used this little ‘critter’ to teach me several important lessons in my walk
with Him, and I owe a thank you to the inventor of Pac-Man for that reason. I want to share one of those lessons with
you.
In this most memorable lesson, “anxiety” is
the name of this variation of Pac-Man played.
It eats away, like corrosion, at one’s faith and trust in Elohim. The more that it feeds, the stronger it gets,
until it reaches the place where there are no longer any of the little dots left that represent emunah, faith in our Creator, belief in
His Word, and trusting in His promises.
There is nothing there. You are left doubting His love for you, and
eventually, the very existence of Yahweh our Elohim.
Anxiety
has its root in fear, and the Word of our Elohim tells us that fear has torment
(1John 4:18); isn’t ‘fretting’ over something complete torment? We also know that our Elohim “has not given
us the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and of a sound mind” (2Tim
1:7). Webster defines anxiety as “a
state of being uneasy, apprehensive, or worried about what may happen; concern
about a possible future event”[1]
(emphasis mine). The Greek word
translated into anxiety in the opening verse (merimnaō,
Strong’s G3309) is
also translated as care, cares, or worries, and the best example of this is
found in the parable of the Sower:
“And others are those sown among thorns,
these are they who hear the word, and THE WORRIES OF THIS AGE, and the deceit
of riches, and the desires for other matters,
entering in, choke the word, and it becomes fruitless.” (Mark 4:18-19 ISR, emphasis mine)
We have specific
instructions on how to handle our cares and anxieties; nursing them, petting
them, and suffering them is not
something that I believe our Creator would have approved of. Was our Master
ever anxious? Only for a short period of
time, in the Garden of Gethsemane, and that
battle was won when His will became fully yielded to the Father (Luke 22:40-43). Only as we look to Him as our example will we
have the victory over the cares of this world …
“Humble yourselves, then, under the mighty
hand of Elohim, so that He exalts you in due time, casting ALL YOUR WORRY upon
Him, for He is concerned about you.” (1Pet 5:6-7, emphasis mine)
Abba Father, we come to You, and we repent of our anxiety, of not trusting You, of looking at vain imaginings instead of at the promises of our Living Elohim. We thank You, Father, that You are faithful, faithful to meet our every need, faithful to complete that which You have begun in us, faithful to watch over Your Word to perform it. We look to You, Abba, as the Author and Finisher of our faith, and we thank You. In Yeshua’s Name … Amein!
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