Bringing Anxiety To Jesus

Living a dedicated life to God is extremely difficult at times. Jesus also found it difficult at times. We are given a bit of insight into some of his own struggles when he was walking around. He was sent into the desert and faced temptations by the devil that would take him out of his current circumstance in a quicker way, but he knew his task was to endure the difficulty of not eating for 40 days, being alone, being hungry, and being without anything. 

Jesus knew that his ultimate goal was to go to the cross and be a sacrifice for all people, but also that he was going to give us his perfect Holy Spirit as well. To be able to help us in our human struggles, he had to endure the same types of struggles. This is why he is our mighty counselor, because he knows first hand what we are feeling, having endured it himself. This allows him to be able to counsel us from the inside by the power of his Holy Spirit.

When Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane before he was beaten and nailed to a cross for us, he was scared. He was so anxious about what was going to happen to him next that he bled tears. The type of anguish you must be in to have blood tears coming from you must be awful, but he did that for us. He did it, so that he could help us through our anxieties and fears of the unknown next step. He did this for us because his love for us is that strong.

He asks that you cast your anxieties on him. That doesn't mean that it is always a poof and the anxiety is gone, but it is a progression of letting them go. In each moment you feel over stressed or riddled with fear or anxiety, immediately say, Lord Jesus, help me. Take my anxiety and fear from me and give me the strength through your holy spirit to overcome. Keep doing this over and over, even if you have to do this with every breath as he did before being nailed to a cross. 

He will get you through the moment, then the day, then the week, then the month and the years, if necessary. He will get you through it as long as you come to him continually, because he is the strength. We are weak and have no power on our own, but he is strong. He overcame death on a cross so that we would believe in him, so that he can help us through our struggles.

"Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Matthew 26:36-39

"And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground." Luke 22:44

"He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem." Isaiah 53:3