Read Psalm 56:3-4a
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid.
I like to think of myself as a fairly logical person when facing something challenging. I am an internal processor – so I tend to take in a whole bunch of information, mull it over, make some to-do lists, and then set to work checking things off my lists to work my way through the challenge in front of me.
That all sounds pretty logical…a good, solid, thought-out plan, right? Except sometimes my internal processing goes a bit hay-wire! Anxiety takes over and I spin the challenge out a million different ways. In my mind I even play out conversations that haven’t actually happened – over and over again. This only causes my anxiety to grow until there is no hope of processing anything logically – and I am stuck. In my mind “the sky is falling” and internally I run around sort of hopelessly.
What I need to do in moments like those, is to examine what is true, not speculate on what could be. When I am stuck in a cycle of anxiety I need to remember where to go to find truth…because truth is what I can put my trust in.
We find truth in God’s Word. It reminds of God’s provision, and love, and grace, and His promises. When I seek to know what God’s Word says, I see the evidence that He is the only one deserving of my trust. Because of who He is I know that I don’t need to be anxious about the future.
Today, make a decision to get into God’s Word on a regular basis. Seek to know Him and trust Him with your life and live unafraid.
