{"id":40855,"date":"2026-07-07T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40855"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:37:19","slug":"26-0708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0708\/","title":{"rendered":"No Exemption for Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.\u00a0 The sky is falling, and it\u2019s falling disproportionately on you.\u00a0 Anxiety ain\u2019t fun!<\/p>\n

One would think Christians would be exempt from anxiety.\u00a0 But we are not.\u00a0 It\u2019s enough to make us wonder if the apostle Paul was out of touch with reality when he wrote in Philippians 4:6, \u201cBe anxious for nothing.\u201d \u00a0Is that what he meant?\u00a0 Not exactly.\u00a0 He wrote the phrase in the present active tense\u2014implying an ongoing state.\u00a0 As if to say, \u201cDon\u2019t let anything in life leave you perpetually breathless and in angst.\u201d<\/p>\n

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Could you use some calm? Of course you could. \u00a0We all could.\u00a0 We all could use a word of comfort. And God is ready to give it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs. The sky is falling, and it\u2019s falling disproportionately on you. Anxiety ain\u2019t fun!<\/p>\n

One would think Christians would be exempt from anxiety. But we are not. It\u2019s enough to make us wonder if the apostle Paul was out of touch with reality when he wrote in Philippians 4:6, \u201cBe anxious for nothing.\u201d Is that what he meant? Not exactly. He wrote the phrase in the present active tense\u2014implying an ongoing state. As if to say, \u201cDon\u2019t let anything in life leave you perpetually breathless and in angst.\u201d<\/p>\n

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Could you use some calm? Of course you could. We all could. We all could use a word of comfort. And God is ready to give it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40861,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855\/revisions\/40861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}