Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

by Max Lucado

It is not God’s will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It is not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation. He made you for more than a life of breath-stealing angst and mind-splitting worry. He has a new chapter for your life. And he is ready to write it.

“Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God is calling us” (Phil. 3:13–14 TLB).

Has God permitted a time of darkness in your world? You look but cannot see him. You see only the fabric of circumstances woven and interlaced. You might question the purpose behind this thread or that. But be assured, God has a pattern. He has a plan. He is not finished, but when he is, the lace will be beautiful.

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The contagiously calm person is the one who reminds others, “God is in control.”

what you have in Christ is greater than anything you don’t have in life.

Have your prayers been met with a silent sky? Have you prayed and heard nothing? Are you floundering in the land between an offered and an answered prayer? Do you feel the press of Satan’s mortar and pestle? If so, I beg you, don’t give up. What the angel said to Daniel, God says to you: “Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard” (Dan. 10:12 NIV). You have been heard in heaven. Angelic armies have been dispatched. Reinforcements have been rallied. God promises, “I will contend with him who contends with you” (Isa. 49:25). Do what Daniel did. Remain before the Lord. Those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. (Isa. 40:31) An angel protected Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the fiery furnace (Dan. 3:23–26). They can protect you. An angel escorted Peter out of prison (Acts 12:5–9). They can walk you out of your bondage. “He [God] has put his angels in charge of you to watch over you wherever you go” (Ps. 91:11 NCV). Heaven has helpers for you. And . . . Heaven has a place for you. Paul knew this. “For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong” (Acts 27:23).