Anxiety is a real thing. It's not a hoax or a myth. Everyone has experienced some sort of anxiety at some point in their lives. Everyone knows how it feels and it's not fun.
What do you do when you have anxiety? How do you get rid of it?
I feel like most people keep it bottled up inside. I know that I do. Whenever I feel anxious I feel like it's so far deep down in me that I just have to keep it there. For some reason, there is a belief that if you talk about it more, you will just become more anxious. So we just try to hide it?
What's the good in hiding about something?
When I used to play hide-in-go seek when I was a kid, I remember there were times where I would find such a good hiding spot that nobody would ever find me. It the moment I thought it was cool, but then as the the game went on, I just found myself still hiding. I was lonely. Sometimes I would hide for so long and my friends just gave up on the game and when I would finally just give up, I would see that they were on to the next game and I was missing out!
When we suffer from anxiety, we have to give it to God.
"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7)
Hiding things from God, carrying your worries, stresses, and daily struggles by yourself shows that you have not trusted God fully with your life. It takes humility, however to recognize that God cares, to admit your needs, and to let others in God's family help you out.
The thing that we have to understand is that when we turn to God in repentance, he will bear the weight of our struggles.
If you remember anything from this post, I hope that it's this: Letting God have your anxieties calls for action, not passivity.
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