Anxiety StrikesSýnishorn

Day 6: Move

A key component to getting out of being trapped in the corner is to move.

It sounds so simple and it really is. However, it is hard to do when the opponent is in your face and your mind is pre-occupied with staying alive. Like breathing, it is one of those quintessential things that we can easily forget.

If the steps in the previous days are followed, it will create openings for you to move out of the corner. In a fight, once your opponent has to address the blows you are throwing back at them, it gives you an opportunity to change your position.

Anxiety’s main goal is to paralyze you so that you give up and quit.

It wants to prevent all of your movement so that you stay stagnant and no longer grow into who God destined you to be.

But that is not going to happen because through Jesus we are turning the tide.

So how do we start moving against anxiety? Start doing the thing that God had put on your heart that anxiety prevented you from doing. Take a step in that direction. Make that phone call. Go to that group. Write that song. I have no idea what that looks like for you, but you and God know. If you don’t know, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you, and pray on it.

It reminds me of Abraham when God asked him to sacrifice his son. He had no clue why God asked him that. But he got up and got everything prepared and went anyway. He knew God would keep His promise to him even if it meant bringing his son back from the dead. Abraham did not fully understand, but he obeyed, and on faith alone he moved his feet.