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Do you often find yourself weighed down with anxiety and worry during your job search? Are you tempted to feel like you’re alone in this battle? You’re definitely not!
We live in an anxiety-prone world. Far more people than you can imagine grapple with this challenge during crossroads in their careers, and the number is only growing each year. Dealing with anxiety is a part of life. As long as we’re in this present world, temptations to be anxious will always be close at hand.
Apprehension about traffic, missing a deadline, meetings you’re not quite prepared for, interviews, crying children, more responsibilities than you can fit in — these common situations
provoke a physical response. There are also much broader categories:
- Money and job security
- The future
- Health
- Children
- School
The world offers a myriad of practical suggestions for battling anxiety - exercise, getting more sleep, support groups, individual counseling, therapy, and many others. These ideas could help you to some degree. There’s no reason not to implement ones you find supportive. But it’s far more helpful to recognize that there is One who has conquered anxiety.
Because of God’s immense love for us, He clearly shares in scripture that there’s a way to experience peace in spite of anxious thoughts.
Want to learn more about scripture’s antidote to anxiety? Let’s take a closer look together...
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