Acorn Build Up: Center Stage

Center Stage

Philippians 4:5-7 (The Message)
Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Worry can take hold of our life. It sneaks in as a passing thought, a fleeting image. Instead of resisting worry, we re-visit it. The visits become more regular until our worries occupy more and more of our thinking. Before long, our worries can take center stage in our life. There is no peace when our worries take over.

The way to send our worries packing begins with recognizing their residency. We can detect these squatters by paying attention to our thinking (see Catch and Release). Once recognized, express our worries to God, place them before God's throne. Soon those former worries will be replaced by Someone much more satisfying. As we return our attention to Christ, His peace will return, too!

Let's put Jesus as the main event on the center stage of our life as we begin this new week.

Peace,
Lon