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1 | need answer | Bible general Archive 4 | Wild Olive Shoot | 201226 | ||
You know brother lionheart... It’s so hard to let go of worry and anxiety sometimes. I never really looked into how the word is used in scripture. I don’t think I really understood the actual meaning of the word and am now looking at it in a different light especially regarding yours and sister Azure’s notes. Even when I think it could be a positive thing, I’m not so sure it is. I ran across some info from R.C. Sproul that I found interesting and wanted to share as well. Philippians 4:6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. “Elsewhere, the apostle Paul in writing to the Philippians gives them the admonition to be “anxious for nothing,” telling them that the cure for anxiety is found on one’s knees, that it is the peace of God that calms our spirit and dissipates anxiety. Again, we can be anxious and nervous and worried without finally submitting to ultimate despair. This coexistence of faith and spiritual depression is paralleled in other biblical statements of emotive conditions. We are told that it is perfectly legitimate for believers to suffer grief. Our Lord Himself was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Though grief may reach to the roots of our souls, it must not result in bitterness. Grief is a legitimate emotion, at times even a virtue, but there must be no place in the soul for bitterness. In like manner, we see that it is a good thing to go to the house of mourning, but even in mourning, that low feeling must not give way to hatred. The presence of faith gives no guarantee of the absence of spiritual depression; however, the dark night of the soul always gives way to the brightness of the noonday light of the presence of God.” – R.C Sproul http://www.ligonier.org/tabletalk/2008/3/1042_The_Dark_Night_of_the_Soul From Ligonier Ministries and R.C. Sproul. © Tabletalk magazine. Website: www.ligonier.org/tabletalk. Stand in His grace, WOS |
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2 | need answer | Bible general Archive 4 | lionheart | 201228 | ||
WOS, My brother I can empathise with you on this. That's why the time we spend with God in His Word is so vitally important. Romans 15:4 fits particularly well here. Our time in God's Word can make the difference between success and failure in our daily walk with God. In Him, lionheart |
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