We're going to continue a series on the subjects of anxiety and hopelessness and other significant emotions that seem to be an incredible part of our daily life.

And so I'd like to continue on the subject of anxiety tonight.

So we're going to go to probably the second or third famous passage in all the Bible on the subject of anxiety.

This is in Philippians in chapter 4

Philippians chapter 4 we're gonna read a few verses and last week's title was I'm

anxious this is I'm anxious, part two.

And if you have ever experienced anxiety,

a crippling fear that oftentimes is connected to the unknowable,

it's connected to the uncontrollable, it's oftentimes a fear of the future, a fear of

what might happen, a fear of what most likely will happen, and what will happen to me, what

will the outcome be, and this is a fear that seems to be

escalating all of the statisticians and the psychologists and the smart people

writing articles and doing things are telling us that the information age is only increasing this.

We have added angst, added stress, added concern, added fear.

We are so well aware of one another's struggles and challenges and difficulties,

while equally so much more well aware of each other's successes

and incredible achievements that simultaneously,

oftentimes in our human condition,

make us feel smaller and less significant.

So as much as we keep telling ourselves, we keep posting all of our successes and our friends

are feeling better as a result.

Oftentimes your friends are feeling less important, less significant in anxiety and angst and fear and stress.

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