The secret to \u2018perfect peace\u2019 lies in this Scripture: \u2018You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!\u2019<\/i> It\u2019s not your circumstances, but how you think about them that robs you of peace. Focusing on your circumstances just causes more anxiety, because circumstances constantly change and often spin out of your control. However, God never changes, and nothing ever spins out of His control. Peace and worry are mutually exclusive. Worry throttles your confidence, chokes your perspective, and suffocates your spirit. It robs you of the peace that comes from knowing the God who can handle anything, and through whom all things are possible. The reason we worry so much is because we engage in exactly the opposite behaviour to that which brings peace. <\/p>\n
Worry is like a \u2018no-confidence\u2019 vote in God. You may not intend it that way, but every time you give in to worry, in essence, you\u2019re saying: \u2018I don\u2019t believe God can or will handle this for me. I\u2019m not sure I can trust Him in this matter, so I\u2019ll just have to carry this burden and take care of the problem myself.\u2019 God is either the object of your trust or just a part-time helper you call on when you can\u2019t handle things on your own. It\u2019s reminiscent of the elephant and the mouse who were walking together over a bridge. When they got to the other side, the mouse said, \u2018Man, we sure shook that bridge!\u2019 When you begin to see God as playing the major role and you the minor one, you\u2019ll begin to find the peace which has eluded you for so long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The secret to \u2018perfect peace\u2019 lies in this Scripture: \u2018You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!\u2019 It\u2019s not your circumstances, but how you think about them that robs you of peace. Focusing on your circumstances just causes more anxiety, because circumstances constantly change and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}