Three times.

Three years. Throughout Scripture, God urges his children to trust him and not to be anxious.

And yet life in this world can rob us of our peace and threaten our sense of stability.

Today on Truth for Life, Alastur Begg offers guidance on how we can counter these

unsettling hindrances.

We're continuing our study in Galatians chapter 5.

Let me say, first of all, that I have every sympathy with those who wrestle, particularly

with anxiety.

I don't think I have ever, perhaps on one occasion only that I would imagine have had what

could have been called a panic attack.

If it wasn't, I don't ever want to have one because it was bad enough. I know what it is personally to worry about things. I know what

it is to be anxious in my spirit. I know what it is to waken at three o'clock in the morning

and feel as though either my life is unraveling

before me or that it is a mountain range that it will be absolutely impossible for me to climb.

Therefore, for those of you, of us, who understand this, we can hold hands together and

acknowledge it. I also recognize that there

are some who have, by dint of personality, a kind of stoical perspective on life. This may or may not

be peace. It may actually be a form of cynicism. It may be the kind of stoicism that essentially responds to all of life with simply a shrug. Who cares? Who really listens? Who pays attention? And neither of those perspectives are brought under the jurisdiction of God until they're

brought under the jurisdiction of God. And as we saw this morning, in quoting from one of the

passages from which I've just quoted again, namely the end of John chapter 16, peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ, clearly does not

guarantee the believer freedom from difficult circumstances, from trying things that would

rob us of peace. Jesus says it categorically, doesn't it? In the world, he says to his followers,

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