Down or Up

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
DOWN OR UP
Prov 12:25
25 An anxious heart weighs a man down,
but a kind word cheers him up.
NIV
It would seem to me that a person’s situation in life as far as the abundance or lack of material goods would have little to no credence when it comes to having an anxious heart. I believe the root of all anxiety is the lack of peace with God. It does not matter what the situation in life brings my way, I need not be anxious about it for I do have peace with God. To be heavy of heart, to be weighted down by the burdens of life seems way too much for any human to carry by themselves and thus Jesus has told me, as well as everyone else, if I were burdened, weighted down and anxious that I should come to him and he would give me rest. This rest I have found, I have been giving his rest. People who either have not heard the good news, or have decided to refuse to accept the good news about Jesus simply cannot ever find the rest from anxiety. I think one of the greatest situations to be anxious about is death. I also believe no matter what a person says about not believing in God and his word, they have a certain fear or anxiety about what is happen at death. I do not believe that deep down within the very core of a person anyone actually believes death is the end of conscience awareness of self. God has said that he has created within every man the truth about him, but that some simply suppress it with their evil deeds or suppress it because of their evil deeds, or suppress it so as to be able to serve self, or evil deeds. Whatever the case, any person who is weighted down with a heavy heart can find rest. He can be cheered up, and the best to do that is the good news about Jesus Christ. They is nothing any human can say about anything human which could relieve a truly anxious heart. It is only the good news which can lift the spirit of any person from the depths of despair to an elated, rejoicing spirit. This is the position I am in. I rejoice in my Lord and Savior. I am no longer at war with God, but I am at peace with him and better yet he is no longer at war with me, but is at peace with me, not that God actually wages war on anyone, but if I am at war with him then I am subject to his wrath, rather than his peace. So I have been cheered up, and I make an effort to do the same for others. I try to cheer them up by the only way I know that truly works and that is the good news of Jesus Christ. So we all have a choice to be down or up, I chose up.