idiot medicine

Proverbs 12:25

“Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down,

but a good word makes him glad.”

Anxiety sucks.

Experts teach of anxiety’s future-orientedness.

An anxious heart is a HEAVY heart.

Weighed down, like a kettlebell in your chest, believing what might happen, will happen.

Why is anxiety so heavy?

Well, anxiety is deeply rooted in our desire to control the future.

Even more deeply rooted in our desire to be god, rather than trust God to God our life.

Anxiety often presents as anger.

Here’s how it works in my life:

If you are like me, I find myself ANGRY (snapping, short, cutting, irritable, impatient, pissed, absorbs in just me, etc.).

If I look underneath my anger, I most often find FEAR and ANXIETY.

If I keep digging deeper, I find my desire to CONTROL.

If I can borrow a “soul backhoe”, I look under my desire to control the future and it gets dark and messy…quickly.

I discover my desire to control has as its foundation my desire to be god, rather than trust God to be God, including being the God of my future.

Like my great, great great, great, grandpappy Adam…I am doubting God’s Power, God’s Control and God’s Goodness. Forgetting His Sovereignty and His Providence.

My anxiety ultimately points to my IDOLATRY.

My breaking of the 1st commandment “I am the Lord your God. I am the One who led you out of Egypt. You are to have no other god’s before me.”

That’s why anxiety is so, so heavy.

You and I are woefully inadequate to be God.

We can’t control our next breath or make our heart beat one more time.

Grindforth!

Go Grizz!