![]() God’s refuge stretches beyond the battlefield and into the barracks, where the battle of the mind is often fought. As long as he can keep you in dread or despair, he can keep you from joy.įortunately, we have a defense for both kinds of attack. ![]() He wants you to live in despair while you’re in trials and live in dread while you’re not. He wants you to be ruled by your worry and taken captive by your fears. If we don’t take our thoughts captive, they will take us captive. As Paul writes to the Corinthians, we’re to “take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Cor. Yet we’re called to take refuge in God not only when the future comes, but right now with our fears about the future (Ps. Something hypothetical in our mind.Īfraid of what might happen tomorrow, our joy is stripped in the present. Often our deepest anxieties are not over something in the past-or even something in the present-but something in the future. Most of our lives are spent not actually fighting our enemies, but only the dread of them. preserve my life from dread of the enemy.” Psalm 64:1 is a prayer we all desperately need to keep close-especially with a new year full of unknowns upon us: “O God. What can we do when we find ourselves paralyzed by anticipatory anxiety? As Corrie ten Boom observed, “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. Beyond the physical effects, fear of the future wreaks havoc on our spiritual lives, filling our time with stagnant anxiety when it could be filled with spiritual vitality and growth.
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