{"id":40860,"date":"2026-07-08T22:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40860"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:42:52","slug":"26-0709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0709\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Chapter for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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The anxious heart says, \u201cThere\u2019s trouble out there!\u201d So you don\u2019t sleep well, you don\u2019t laugh often, misfortune lurks\u2026it\u2019s just a matter of time. As a result, you\u2019re anxious.<\/p>\n

How can this be? Our cars are safer than ever. We regulate food and water and electricity. Yet if worry were an Olympic event, we\u2019d win the gold medal. Keep in mind anxiety is not a sin; it\u2019s an emotion. It can, however, lead to sinful behavior.\u00a0 When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, or when we peddle our fears to anyone who\u2019ll buy them, we\u2019re sinning.<\/p>\n

Jesus gave this word: \u201cBe careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with\u2026the anxieties of life.\u201d (Luke 21:34 NIV). God made you for more than a life of angst and mind-splitting worry. He has a new chapter for your life, and he is ready to write it.<\/p>\n

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

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The anxious heart says, \u201cThere\u2019s trouble out there!\u201d So you don\u2019t sleep well, you don\u2019t laugh often, misfortune lurks\u2026it\u2019s just a matter of time. As a result, you\u2019re anxious.<\/p>\n

How can this be? Our cars are safer than ever. We regulate food and water and electricity. Yet if worry were an Olympic event, we\u2019d win the gold medal. Keep in mind anxiety is not a sin; it\u2019s an emotion. It can, however, lead to sinful behavior.\u00a0 When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, or when we peddle our fears to anyone who\u2019ll buy them, we\u2019re sinning.<\/p>\n

Jesus gave this word: \u201cBe careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with\u2026the anxieties of life.\u201d (Luke 21:34 NIV). God made you for more than a life of angst and mind-splitting worry. He has a new chapter for your life, and he is ready to write it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40860","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\/40860","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=40860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40864,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions\/40864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}