Cast Your Anxiety With Me

“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” – 1 Peter 5:7

I’m reminded today, and should be reminded everyday, how short and important life is. It should not be wasted with worry, pessimism, and other negative things. Every day there is the challenge to stay balanced. I once thought that balance was a destination. As with life, it isn’t about the destination, it’s about the journey. It’s about growing everyday, every moment.

I struggle with balance and self-control. I am very undisciplined, but very hard on myself when I try to be disciplined and don’t do things completely right. I want to be humble, but have so much pride. I want to be funny and carefree, yet I’m often too serious and tangled in my ropes of insecurities. I long to be healthy in so many ways, yet I often choose unhealthy options due to the response of the flesh instead of chewing on the fruit of the Spirit.

Living life according to the Spirit is very hard, especially because Satan is always trying to devour us who live by the Spirit. He wants us to respond by the flesh and impulsivity because that’s his world and he wants us to “stimulate his economy.” I am writing this because Simon Peter encouraged me this morning that others are going through the same struggles as me throughout the world.

I guess that’s the whole idea of this blog. I want to share my struggles along the way. It’s an outlet for me to “talk” and get things out in a healthy way. I share in hopes that someone who reads this may be going through a similar situation and wants to know they are not alone. We are never alone if we have a relationship with God, but there needs to be fellowship and kinship and that is what I’m offering.

I want to give back in anyway I can. I was told once by someone who touched my life to always pay it forward. I’m trying to do that more and more in my life. I’m trying to talk less and listen more. I’m welcoming those who know me to kindly interrupt me and tell me to shut my trap because I’ve done enough talking. I’ve especially done enough talking to God, it’s about time I wised up and started to listen. Yet through all of my talking and taking in life, God still cares for me and wants me to lay it all on Him. He wants me to lay everything on Him, good and bad.

The bad being all my problems, the biggest one being my inability to handle stress and anxiety. I’m learning to control this so my life can be fuller and more carefree. I need to be whole again, the way God intended. And I need to be light and joyful and free, like I’m floating in the sky holding on to strings attached to strong, happy, helium balloons of God’s love and security.

Then, in the joy being able to lay all that on God too, in the form of sincere gratitude because that is what He deserves! He deserves all of us and every minute of our lives. I want to be obsessed and consumed with God, free of anxiety. Come with me and cast your ropes! Let God change them into strings of joy with happy balloons and we can float away together!