Hello, I’m 27M. I’m living in a weird delusion life where I have anxiety that I’m about to loose everything in my life. I have a steady job at the moment that I’ve managed to buy myself a little house and I live alone with my dog. After work I come home and spend time with my dog because she’s at home by herself all day. Lately I have been spending a lot of time on my own due to the pandemic and some anxiety struggles. I feel like my life is on the edge of everything falling apart. If I loose my job I would struggle to find a equal paying job and I have to organize my living expenses or I become homeless. As I’m single I feel like I have the worlds weight on my own shoulders. I’m still young where I have to keep things together for a foreseeable future of 60 years. I’m overwhelmed by the thought of how long I have to figure life out still. How do you look forward to a potentially broken future? I appreciate the response
Beloved one, consider what you have heard:
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. -1 Peter 5:7
Beloved one, cast your care to the Lord, for He cares for you. Knowing our Lord cares matter ! Let us be convinced that the Lord doesn’t leave us alone and that He doesn’t forsake us. Let us delight ourselves in His steadfast love, that deliver us.
Beloved one, consider what David have heard and what you have heard :
“Lord, how they have increased who trouble me!
Many are they who rise up against me.
Many are they who say of me,
“There is no help for him in God.” Selah”
Psalms 3:1-2 NKJV
“But You, O Lord, are a shield for me,
My glory and the One who lifts up my head.
I cried to the Lord with my voice,
And He heard me from His holy hill. Selah”
Psalms 3:3-4 NKJV
Beloved one, Selah is to pause to reflect what has been said. Weird delusion have increased because they who have troubled you, increase. They are the voices of the enemies and you cannot consider as your voice — how logically they may sound. Don’t let the enemies place a false image of yourself on your mind.
Beloved one, put away that false images of yourself and the false voices of troubles from the enemies. Beloved one, resist the enemies in the power of the Lord’s name. And in His name, through faith in His name will make you strong ! It is not your power or godliness that give you this perfect soundness in the presence of all but because of His name, you can push away the enemies.
Beloved one, consider what we have heard:
“You love all devouring words,
You deceitful tongue.
God shall likewise destroy you forever;
He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah”
Psalms 52:4-5 NKJV
“The righteous
also shall see and fear,
And shall laugh at him, saying, “
Here is the man who did not make God his strength,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.””
Psalms 52:6-7 NKJV
Beloved one, as ones being justified freely by
the Lord’s grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith.
Beloved one, let us make the Lord our God our strength. Let us not trust in the abundance of riches. Let us strengthen ourselves in God’s righteousness.
Beloved one, don’t rely on your physical senses but rely on your spiritual senses.
Beloved one, consider what our Heavenly Father have said:
“My son, if you receive my words,
And treasure my commands
within you,
So that you incline
your ear to wisdom,
And
apply your heart to understanding;”
Proverbs 2:1-2 NKJV
Beloved one, what is within us, is our hearts!
So the ear is spoken here, is not our physical ear but the ear of our hearts. With the ear of our hearts, we heard and apply our hearts to understanding the Father’s words and commands.
Why it is important to listen to the Father’s words and commands that our Lord Jesus Christ have spoken ? This is what we have heard:
“And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them;
and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.””
John 10:4-5 NKJV
we follow the Lord’s voice or words and commands because we know His voice. We as the Lord’s sheep don’t follow weird delusions or the voices of strangers.
Beloved one, listening to the words and commands of the Father, allows us to place the right image of ourselves, that is, to be conformed to the image of His Son.
Beloved one, listening to the voice of our Shepherd. We are assured that He makes us lie down in grassy pasture, that He provides.
How ? Just trust Him that we are His sheep and He is our Shepherd because He has given His life for us.
Beloved one, let us immerse ourselves with the truth of His words, that is, the truth of His love:
“
And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who
also made us
sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter
but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but
the Spirit gives life.”
II Corinthians 3:4-6 NKJV
Beloved one, consider John the Baptist :
“John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.
You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.
He must increase, but I must decrease.”
John 3:27-30 NKJV
Beloved one, if A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. So everything has been given to Christ from Heaven, so we can receive everything through Christ. Let us stand in the grace of God and hear the bridegroom’s voice. Let this joy of ours be fulfilled. Christ must increase, but we must decrease.
So what must increase and decrease ? His voice or words in our lives must increase but the voice of our old life or our old selves must decrease.
Beloved one, don’t consider always, that you wait for God, but also consider God wait for you. For we heard:
Therefore the Lord will wait,
that He may be gracious to you;
And therefore He will be exalted,
that He may have mercy on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Isaiah 30:18 NKJV
Hold close to your heart, beloved one, that the Lord’s goodness endure continually.
Just consider when our Lord was crucified, on their part He is blasphemed, but on our part He is glorified. ( 1 Peter 4:13-14).
so beloved one, commit the work of your hands to the Lord and your thoughts will be established. ( Proverbs 16:3 NKJV )
Beloved one, lift your inner being to the Lord daily. And wait for Him, and you will not be put to shame. For we heard:
“By David: I lift my inner being to you, Adonai; I trust you, my God.
Don’t let me be disgraced, don’t let my enemies gloat over me.
No one waiting for you will be disgraced; disgrace awaits those who break faith for no reason.”
Tehillim (Psa) 25:1-3 CJB
Beloved one, let us be conformed to the image of His Son and treasure His words in our hearts, and let us seek the Lord’s strength, not our own. Let us rejoice that God the Father has set forth for us, His Son as our Shepherd.
To God the Father be thanksgiving through Christ. Amen.