Anxiety, calm down; Anxiousness, be still; And there was a great calm. “You will keep me in perfect peace IF my mind is stayed on You, because I trust in You.” Isaiah26:3
To begin with, I am letting You be my guide and I am committed to following You. I trust You because I know that you have my and Your best interests at heart.
Jesus, You keep me in perfect peace when my focus is stayed on You. I continually talk with You and receive God-sight into what you are up to and doing in all that I am facing and going through. You keep me in Your perfect peace because You aren’t anxious about anything. What I am going through is a part of the course you have for me. This is how we (You and I) do life together as we cross this lake. Perhaps the next time we cross this lake, we will practice it in a storm because by then I will be more relationally mature and will have greater capacity and greater trust (faith) in You.
Sometimes we are practicing calming the outer storms; And sometimes we are practicing calming the inner storms (Anxiety). With a lack of relational maturity, I run from the storms and try to avoid them. When I am relationally mature I have the ability to calm the storms.