If you have ever travelled by
aircraft, you will know that we cannot take our most oversized luggage to our
seats, but we must drop our baggage at the flight counter before taking off.
But doesn’t that ring a bell to you regarding our spiritual journey? In our Christian
life, we have one baggage: anxiety. We carry it daily, and it is hard to let it
go. However, God wants us to drop it and never claim it again.
Being anxiety-free in the present
world is challenging. Still, Jesus told us not to be anxious about our life
because God is there to provide for our needs (Matthew 6:26). Why did he say
that? Because he knows that sin is not the only factor that hinders our
spiritual journey but anxiety too. Hebrews 12:1 confirms that by saying, “...let
us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely...”. You see,
weight (anxiety) can also impact our relationship with God, and we cannot take off
with it in our journey with the Lord.
So how do we deal with it? Peter
says we can wrestle with it through humility. How can that be, you may ask?
Peter says, “humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God...by casting all
your anxiety on him because he cares for you” (I Peter 5:6-7). Interestingly,
Peter constructs his grammar so that humility and casting are tied together. This
means we cannot cast our anxiety on God without humility. So, humility is vital
if we are to get rid of anxiety; it means that we are totally dependent on God
and not on ourselves.
God is calling us to continually
cast our anxiety because he cares for us, not only today or tomorrow but
whenever it gets in the way. It does not mean that anxiety will forever be
gone, but we will be stressed free because now we know who we can lean on. Therefore,
let go and let God do the needful.
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