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You're listening to the Russell Moore Show, where we look for signposts in a strange

time by standing fast to what really matters.

Kingdom over culture wars, truth over tribalism, pilgrimage over partisanship, sanity over cynicism,

witness over winning, and Christ over everything.

Today we have a listener question as we seek to do just that.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode with a listener question. I'm producer Leslie Thompson,

and of course, Russell Moore is here. Hello, Russell. Hello. Today's question is extremely relevant. In fact, it was forwarded by someone in our team from the questions account because it was just so important for so many people. So let's go ahead and listen.

Hello, my husband and I have been navigating a health scare, and it's been really hard for me not to

imagine worst-case scenarios, and I've always been a little prone to anxiety, and so I'm very

familiar with the scriptures about anxiety and the encouragement and exhortation we've been given.

I guess my question relates to the passage in Philippians 4.

I'm often trying to obey the scriptures, casting my cares upon him, knowing that he cares for me.

I don't feel very peaceful in the midst of these kinds of challenges. Am I misreading the scriptures here? Am I doing something wrong? If you've got any counsel for somebody like myself, I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Well, what I would say to this listener is you are misreading the scriptures here and no,

you're not doing anything wrong.

And here's what I mean by that.

I think when some people look at these passages on anxiety, they're first of all not differentiating between the kind of

anxiety where we sort of you know David White the poet talks about how anxiety actually

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