In our everyday living, it is common to struggle with negative emotions.
Deep personal concerns about the future and our inability to control the outcome will consume us with negatively if we do not learn how to respond to our feelings in a God-centered way.
The natural self-absorbed response is to change my negative feeling using food and drink, exercise, mindfulness, medications – all things that may help us cope, but none of these human actions have the power to free our hearts from the constriction that presses upon us when we are worried and anxious.
At its core, worry and anxiety are spiritual problems as the opponent wants to keep us off balance and on edge, drawing further into ourselves and becoming less cheerful and confident.
Spiritual problems demand spiritual answers.
God – and only God – has the power to take away the negative emotions associated with worry and anxiety. Indeed, God desires that we make our way to Him.
I had to learn the supernatural response to feeling worried and anxious. The bible teaches us to draw near to God in all things and shows us how to connect with God whenever negative feelings from worry and anxiety are causing distress. We term these four biblical steps when I am feeling anxious and worried Relinquishment.
