“DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING!”

 Philippians 4:4-7                     (ESV)

“[4] Rejoice in the LORD always; again I will say, rejoice. [5] Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The LORD is at hand; [6] “DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING”, BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION WITH THANKSGIVING LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN TO GOD. [7] And the PEACE of GOD, which surpasses ALL UNDERSTANDING, will guard your hearts and your minds in CHRIST JESUS.”

Speaking only for my life, it seems that “the enemy” tries to convolute my thoughts and my emotions with the cares of “this world” by allowing me to “perceive” what might be in my future and causing me to get my EYES off of WHO holds my future?  When I place anything other than what GOD has for me into my future it always causes me fear and anxiety, character traits of Satan.  

ALMIGHTY GOD is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33) and HIS PEACE (John 14:27) is available to us when we keep our EYES focused on HIM!  The focal passage this morning plainly tells us that for us to “DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING”, rather to “REJOICE in the LORD always; again I will say, REJOICE”!  We have a difficult time BEING ANXIOUS when our EYES are fixed on JESUS!  Keeping JESUS on the THRONE of our lives is the PERFECT prescription for having PEACE!

There is NO OTHER way to have PEACE in our lives than to rely on the PEACE of JESUS!  “DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING” will be easy to do ONLY when we keep our EYES ON HIM!!!