Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered on anything short of God and His will for us. When we make anything else our goal, frustration and defeat are inevitable. Turn your eyes on Christ; worship Him. He will never fall or fail. He gives life balance, security and peace.

Don’t misunderstand me—anxiety in itself is not wrong. Certain types of anxiety are natural and normal. Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, warned us not against anxiety, but against the wrong kinds of anxieties. He said, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear … But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Matthew 6:25–33).

We create our own troubles and then try to cure them without God. But mankind’s self-sufficiency is playing out. We are awakening to the fact that our spiritual infirmity can be cured only by the Great Physician, and that the remedies He indicated are as valid today as they were when He prescribed them. Christ says: “Come unto me … and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).