Worry is a common emotion even among Christians.

and it has been since the fall of mankind. Throughout the Bible, God commands His people

do not fear, and yet all of us experience anxiety to one degree or another, and we respond

to it differently. Today on Truth for Life Weekend, Alistair Begg explores the biblical

solution for fear.

My text for this morning is 1 Peter chapter 5 and verse 7, cast all your anxiety on

Him because He cares for you. Anxiety is a strange thing, it creeps up on you, and comes

like a knife stabbing into your back. It's as though somebody just all of a sudden produced

a blanket and pulled it over your head. Sometimes in the strangest of circumstances, at times

that we least imagine its presence, it creeps up on us and gets us.

And so I'd like for this morning to think with you for a moment or two about this whole

issue of anxiety, noticing first of all the anxiety that we face and then the action that

we take and then finally and briefly the assurance that we enjoy. The anxiety that

was being faced by Peter's first readers was clear and unmistakable. They lived their

lives with a threat of persecution. At any time like a volcano erupting, they may be

confronted by their lives in jeopardy, by their families being taken away from them.

And for Peter to address the question of anxiety, it was not theoretical, but it was intensely

practical. As normal people living in their day, professing faith in Jesus Christ, they

worried about the things that people worry about. They worried about their families, they

worried about their future, they worried about their employment, businessmen worried if

they would turn a profit, engage couples worried about whether they would ever live long enough

to get married. And in actuality, when we think about it for a moment or two, we realize

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