My specific anxiety topic is that I am young and I want to live the rest of my life.
What matters is how we live, not only what or how much or how long we have things. But we need quality of any quantity
"be content with such things as you have" (in Hebrews 13:5)
"I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Chrst who strengthens me." (in Philippians 4:11-13)
If Jesus returned, I would like to at least be able to taste whatever things in this world I haven't experienced yet but many other people including good Christians got to experience.
In case they are really Christian people, they have learned how to submit to how God personally rules them in His own peace < this is a Bible basic of Christianity > Colossians 3:15. And I will assure you that if someone is constantly seeking to submit to God's personal guiding in His peace, the person is not very concerned about what or how much he or she has. But first we are about pleasing God.
Yes, we enjoy what we have, and it is written that God
"gives us richly all things to enjoy," in 1 Timothy 6:17. But what we appreciate most of all is sharing with God while we share with one another as His family. And so, we are just using things we have, in order to share with people. With a lot or a little . . . either way . . . we can use this for relating with other people.
Having less can mean having more time to be in prayer with God and more time to share as family. And a well-to-do person can use one's resources for arranging time for loving and sharing with various people, and having time for prayer in sharing and caring with God.
You can have real love and peace and joy, then, in any situation. Our best blessing and the greatest adventure is learning how to love > this is the best education and the most interesting and worthwhile
and satisfying challenge
And the other thing is why did the last generation before mine get to live more of their life but I won't?
If it was good for them, that is because they first learned how to walk with Jesus so they could enjoy His
"rest for your souls." (see Matthew 11:28-30) Or else, they possibly suffered a lot of stress about ways they could at any time lose all they had.
You need to be able to deal with it, then > a lot or a little. If you can't handle a little, you are not ready to enjoy and be creative with a lot. Love is creative with nothing or everything!
I keep finding that when God blesses me, Satan is allowed to test the blessing with the exact opposite. Then, when I trust God, He proves how He is committed to keeping what is His good for me and others, no matter what Satan does. But we need to be with God so we can keep doing well in spite of how Satan brings his hell stuff. We need to not be under the power, then, of the good that God shares with us.
One thing that helped me is I was glad and thanking God for how He was blessing others to have a lot in life and have families and ministerial callings to preach and pastor and teach. And as I got more real in this blessing of others, it was as good as if I was being blessed like that, myself, because I was caring about others just as much as myself.
And then I got my lady friend, and blessings which money can not buy . . . and Satan being allowed to test and threaten me with the exact opposite . . . with major cruelly hateful emotional attacks and imaginations and feelings; but God's grace is almighty against any and all Satanic stuff so I can grow in loving and enjoying my Jesus family people and things I still can do at age 72.
Our Apostle Paul says he took
"pleasure" in his troubles > 2 Corinthians 12:7-15 > this was after he learned to trust Jesus and stay in God's grace. Then was when, in any situation or threat, Paul could take
"pleasure" in Jesus and loving as family with God's people, plus loving and caring with hope for any and all people who do not have Christ. God's grace favors us loving and caring about any and all others, not only our own selves . . . during problems, caring in prayer with hope for even ones threatening and attacking us > love
"hopes all things" (in 1 Corinthians 13:7).
So, trust in Jesus and grow in Jesus and discover how you see things, then.
Being able to please God and submit to how He rules us in His peace, and being able to love as Jesus Christ's family, and being able to love any and all other people > all this is more than all else > having a lot or having nothing and any troubles are nothing in comparison.
I don't want to necessarily hear that it's because Jesus doesn't want us to become distracted here.
You can become distracted.
And if anxiety is a major issue for you, already you are distracted with what you would like to have > you still need to become ready so you can handle having a lot. And if we do have a lot, we need to be ready in case it is God's plan for it to go away. So, it is good to be good at having nothing.
Also, it can be very helpful to be good at doing nothing, in case we ever need to do that
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There are people who do too much. They might make money for forty hours a week and then use up all their time spending it, instead of learning how to share with God and love as His family.
People are not always "distracted" from the stuff in this world from Jesus.
true
But I do want some wisdom or advice with how to stop thinking about it, at least.
If it has you under its power . . . in your case power to make you anxious . . . you still need to find out how to deal with it. Because, among other things . . . as I say . . . if you can't handle it without anxiety, you aren't ready to handle it. And even if you get blessed with a lot, at any time things can change. And/or . . . Satan will somehow be allowed to test and/or threaten howsoever we are blessed with Jesus.
So, now you have us praying for you. God bless you
howsoever
