In the great classroom of life, I make an \u201cA\u201d in anxiety.\u00a0 I worry well and if I do say so myself, I am rather good at it.\u00a0 I know the Bible says, \u201cBe anxious for nothing , . . . \u201c but, one can\u2019t live up to every verse, so I have to let this verse, in Philippians 4:6 slide. \u00a0Let someone else preach on this verse. Not me.\u00a0 I would worry too much about that sermon.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure the great preachers could do, so since they probably never worry about anything. The well-known British preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who obviously never worried about anything including his body weight, said, \u201cAnxiety does not empty tomorrow of it sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.\u201d\u00a0 The other day, I saw a quote that another writer had written that really got my attention.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure I remember the exact words, but a close paraphrase would be, \u201cwhat you still worry about is what you have not yet surrendered to God.\u201d\u00a0 Ouch!\u00a0 So, I\u2019m going to try hard to stop worrying about things.\u00a0 Who knows, I might even prepare a sermon on Philippians 4:6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the great classroom of life, I make an \u201cA\u201d in anxiety.\u00a0 I worry well and if I do say so myself, I am rather good at it.\u00a0 I know the Bible says, \u201cBe anxious for nothing , . . . \u201c but, one can\u2019t live up to every verse, so I have to let…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}