Toil Quoting: Anxiety

"Take no thought for your life…" Some would hasten to qualify, "but that simply means not to be anxious about our life, worrying about how we will make ends meet." That is very true. However, anxiety is a state of discontentment and unbelief.

Whatever monopolizes our thoughts is what we are anxious about. We may tell ourselves that we are not worried but just planning and pondering and mulling over the possibilities, but in truth we are seeking to express our godhood in laboring to order our own universe, and what irks us most are those things, which escape our grasp.


Those troubling things which refuse to move, to bend, to yield at our beck-and-call. Anxiety is the fruit of assuming responsibilities that are not our own. In this case anxiety is the result of assuming God’s responsibility as provider in every area of our lives.

It is in those areas that we least trust Him that we take the most thought. Truly, man has done everything he can to explain this scripture away, and that he must if he insists on being his own god. It requires faith to assume the posture of the helpless creatures that we truly are—to admit our vulnerability.