One Christian author writes: ‘I once went through a period…when I was plagued by anxiety. I was filled with fear and dread for no particular reason. I kept feeling something terrible was going to happen. Finally I went to the Lord and asked Him what was troubling me. He told me it was “evil forebodings”. At the time I didn’t even know what that phrase meant or where it came from. Sometime later I came across Proverbs 15:15: “All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances]” (AMPC)…I was like so many other people. I was looking for some “monster problem” that was keeping me from enjoying life. I was so intense about everything; I was creating problems for myself where none really existed. Once in a meeting, the Lord told me to speak out something. Apparently, someone needed to hear this: “Stop making a big deal out of nothing.” I used to be the type of person who needed to hear directions like that. I could make mountains out of molehills. I had to learn to just let some things go – forget them and go on. Some of us become upset over things that are just not worth becoming upset over – those “little foxes, that spoil the vines” (Song of Songs 2:15 KJV). If our lives consist of becoming upset over one little thing after another…we won’t have much peace or joy.’ So, the word for today is – cultivate a happy heart and start enjoying the life God has given you!

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