The Contented Life Daily DevotionalSample

Entrust Your Worries To God's Care

You are likely very familiar with anxiety robbing you of your peace. Regardless of ethnicity, age, and gender, we can all identify with feelings of dread and trepidation.

Whether it's being persecuted for your faith in Christ, losing your job, taking a challenging exam, receiving a bad medical report, thinking about the future, or being concerned about the state of the country or the world, we all have legitimate reasons to be anxious. The question is: Where do you find true, lasting peace when facing life's challenges? Is it found in a pill, a bottle, a vacation, a new spouse, a new job, a new country, a new church, a new house, more money in your bank account, more social media followers, or a new season of life?

The fact is that true, lasting peace and contentment in anxiety-inducing times come from the one and only God of Peace (Rom. 15:33). Asking, seeking, and knocking for God's help requires faith and humility. That is why, in the previous verse (6), the Apostle Peter instructs the persecuted and suffering Christians to "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time." Peace requires that you approach God by faith, cast your anxiety on him in prayer, and patiently wait for His response in due time.

God cares for His people, and He is only a breath away. Cry out to the God of grace who made a way to Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ. Trust in the words of your beloved Savior who said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid" (John 14:27).

Peace is a gift of grace, and it comes from the Prince of Peace. Entrust your worries to God's care today and receive His peace.

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By: Fari Maghami