Worry and Anxiety
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Faith Can Be Invincible—Do not worry. By looking at appear-
ances and complaining when difficulty and pressure come, you reveal
a sickly, enfeebled faith. By your words and your works show that your
faith is invincible. The Lord is rich in resources. He owns the world.
Look to Him who has light, and power, and efficiency. He will bless
everyone who is seeking to communicate light and love.—
Testimonies
for the Church 7:212
(1902).
Plants Do Not Grow Through Worry or Conscious Effort—In
place of growing anxious with the thought that you are not growing
in grace, just do every duty that presents itself, carry the burden of
souls on your heart, and by every conceivable means seek to save the
lost. Be kind, be courteous, be pitiful; speak in humility of the blessed
hope; talk of the love of Jesus; tell of His goodness, his mercy, and
His righteousness; and cease to worry as to whether or not you are
growing. Plants do not grow through any conscious effort....The plant
is not in continual worriment about its growth; it just grows under the
supervision of God.—
The Youth’s Instructor, February 3, 1898
. (
My
Life Today, 103
.)
Remedy for Anxiety—God cares for everything and sustains ev-
erything that He has created....No tears are shed that He does not
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notice. There is no smile that He does not mark.
If we would but fully believe this, all undue anxieties would be
dismissed. Our lives would not be so filled with disappointment as
now; for everything, whether great or small, would be left in the
hands of God, who is not perplexed by the multiplicity of cares or
overwhelmed by their weight. We should then enjoy a rest of soul to
which many have long been strangers.—
Steps to Christ, 86
(1892).
Faith Dispels Anxiety—We are so anxious, all of us, for happi-
ness, but many rarely find it because of their faulty methods of seeking,
in the place of striving. We must strive most earnestly and mingle all
our desires with faith. Then happiness steals in upon us almost un-
sought.... When we can, notwithstanding disagreeable circumstances,
rest confidingly in His love and shut ourselves in with Him, resting
peacefully in His love, the sense of His presence will inspire a deep,
tranquil joy. This experience gains for us a faith that enables us not to
fret, not to worry, but to depend upon a power that is infinite.—Lt 57,
1897. (
My Life Today, 184
.)