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Anxiety Weighs You Down, but a Good Word Lifts You Up
Reflecting on Proverbs 12:25, this episode explores how anxiety c… (visit YouTube for more)
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The proverb that we’ll meditate on today applies to us directly, and it also applies to how we operate with other people. Proverbs 12, verse 25. Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Anxiety can be a fact of life, can’t it? It seems to be an increasing fact of our modern lives. It’s something that we very commonly encounter in ourselves and in others. And if we’ve encountered that, we will know, we’ll resonate with this description that it weighs us down. We may have seen others around us suffering from anxiety, and we see them weighed down.
So the writer of the proverb says, what’s one of the antidotes to this? A good word, A good word makes the anxious person glad.
And where do we go for a source of good words? Well, my goodness, we have this book that has thousands of pages in it, and it’s full of good words. And I’m not saying that we beat each other up with the Bible because sometimes that’s what we are accused of.
But there are so many precious truths in the word of God about how he feels about us, about how he cares for us, about how he’s leading us on, about how he’s bringing us through suffering and adversity, how he’s conforming us to the likeness of Christ, how we have a glorious destiny. And sometimes we need to be reminded of that because the cares and concerns of this world will be a distant memory when we go to be with him in glory.
Who are we going to be my friends? Are we going to be those who dwell in anxiety, or are we going to be those who dwell on God’s good words and who hand out those good words to others so that they too may see release from their own anxiety?
