You're listening to Battle Ready, your five-minute daily devotional with your hosts,

Aaron McManus and Erwin Raphael McManus.

Good morning, Dad.

How you doing, Dad? How are you doing today?

I'm doing well. I'm loving doing this with you.

In Philippians 4-6, it says, do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation,

by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Well, my little cynical brain immediately jumps to, I'm not anxious about anything or nothing.

I'm anxious about something and everything.

My brain goes, I'm anxious about everything, God. Help me, please help me.

There's one, it's just encouraging to me that 2,000 years ago, they were dealing with anxiety.

This is not a new cultural phenomenon that humans have always dealt with anxiety.

And it is to me interesting that to be anxious literally means to be split apart and to be torn apart.

And so when someone is anxious, they're not coming together. They're falling apart.

And he gives us a really, really powerful application here. First of all, he lets us know that anxiety is not an

unusual human experience. It is a common human experience. So we're all going to deal with it.

We're all going to have moments where we feel incredibly anxious. And anxiety usually is rooted in things

that are not specific, that we feel anxious and we really

don't know why we're actually anxious it's it's it's sort of like an overwhelming sense of disconnection

despair out of control that feeling of impending doom yeah that oh yeah it's that sense of that something bad's going to happen, right?

And there's no good choice ahead.

But he gives us a really practical action step.

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