From Confident To "Consumed With Worry"

I do not characterize myself as a worrier.  But that philosophy went out the window after being confronted with a reality I did not foresee.

In that moment and the millions that followed, it was an understatement to say I was consumed by worry.  I was panicked!  The overwhelming fear that devoured my heart and mind was indescribable.  It was one of the most helpless and fear-gripping seasons of my life.

My husband was my rock during that time.  It must have been God’s grace flowing through him because his constant reassurances during a completely destitute and dark situation were the only things giving me peace.

The situation itself was filled with deception and hopelessness.  When I thought through the ramifications of what might happen in the end, it was frightening.

One day, as I looked out the window with a fear-gripped heart pleading with Jesus to intervene, He spoke to me instantly.  I knew it was Jesus because an old song that I had not heard for over two decades immediately popped into my head.  The chorus to “Ah, Lord God” repeated in my mind: “Nothing is too difficult for Thee. Nothing is too difficult for Thee.  Great and mighty God, great in counsel and mighty in deed.  Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing.  Nothing is too difficult for Thee!”

I immediately burst into tears.  I was not crying from fear or worry anymore but from sheer joy, knowing God had just spoken to me and would answer my plea.  A few months later, God intervened as promised because nothing is too difficult for Him!

Looking back on that season, my husband’s reassurances, and God’s message to me that day, gave me hope to cling to amid such darkness.  What about you?  What are you clinging to that is helping you combat worry?