Anxiety vs. Love – Part 6

Anxiety vs. Love

Products ———-People

Control ————-Contemplation

Experts ————-Process

Results ————-Relationships

Conformity ————-Creativity

Answers ————-Questions

One of the ways that we will surely tell us if we are beginning to live a little too much out of the anxiety instead of love is when we begin to feel a deep discomfort with questions about what we are leading. Living out of anxiety drives us to grasp for control and one of the things that makes us feel a little more in control is having all the answers to all the questions.

After thinking about this for some time, I think that we can follow this anxiety back all the way back to who we believe ourselves to be.  It’s not really about any organization, ministry, or program that we are worried about.  We end up feeling a deep anxiety about who we are and who accepts us and doesn’t accept us and we strive to control how others perceive us by having or demanding all the right answers.  

Let’s try to live out of love this week, we know that, as followers of Jesus, we are children of God.  Embrace the questions the come up, let them be, and instead of worrying about the answers to these questions love the people who are asking them.