5.26.21 What God Has to Say About Anxiety, Real Southern Woman
Channel: REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN, COLLARD VALLEY COOK
Date: 2021-05-26

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
May 26th — Morning Reading 
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." — Psalm 55:22 

Care, even though practiced upon allowable objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The rule to avoid worried care is seriously ingrained by our Saviour, again and again; it is repeated by the apostles; and it is one which cannot be neglected without involving transgression (sin): for the very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting ourselves into His place to do for Him that which He has undertaken to do for us. 

We attempt to think of that which we fancy He will forget; we labor to take upon ourselves our weary burden, as if He were unable or unwilling to take it for us. Now this disobedience to His plain rule, this unbelief in His Word, this presumption in intruding upon His province (His territory), is all sinful. 

And more than this, anxious care often leads to acts of sin. He who cannot calmly leave his affairs in God's hand, but will carry his own burden, is very likely to be tempted to use wrong means to help himself. This sin leads to a forsaking of God as our counsellor and resorting instead to human wisdom.  

This is going to the "broken container" instead of to the "fountain;" a sin which was laid against Israel of old. Anxiety makes us doubt God's lovingkindness, and thus our love to Him grows cold; we feel mistrust, and thus grieve the Spirit of God, so that our prayers become hindered, our consistent example spoiled, and our life one of self-seeking.  

That being so, want of confidence in God leads us to wander far from Him; but if through simple faith in His promise, we cast each burden as it comes upon Him, and are "careful for nothing" because He undertakes to care for us, it will keep us close to Him, and strengthen us against much temptation.  

"Christ will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him, because you trust in Christ." 

Edited by Tammy Nichols for easy reading on 05.26.21