Theology - the only cure for anxiety

Some people tend to worry more than others.  Some of us pick a few select things that we worry about and then we can leave the rest alone.  However you choose to worry, the Scriptures have much to say about anxiety and worry.  The majority of what Scripture says is to avoid it.  We are told not to worry about tomorrow.  We are told we can cast our anxieties on Jesus because of His care for us.  We are in other words to avoid worry. 

For most of us the command to avoid something is essentially meaningless.  After all, how do you get rid of something that seems so internal.  We have this idea that if it happens in our head or hearts we can do nothing about it.  And yet the Bible says in Romans 12 that we are to renew and transform our minds.  There has to be something that we can do.  And the good news is that we can.  We can change our theology - the way that we think about God. 

Proper theology tells us that God is caring for us.  That God will provide for us.  That God is good and all He does is good.  Proper theology tells us who we are and that what we need more than the things that we worry about is that we need God and to be in a right relationship with Him.  Proper thinking about God is the cure for anxiety.  Only when we think rightly of God will we be able to think rightly about our world and about ourselves and about the circumstances we find ourselves in!

So if you are worried today, instead of thinking about it, think about God!