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Our culture is frantic with worry. We stress over circumstances we can't control, we talk about what's keeping us up during the night, and we wring our hands over the fate of disadvantaged people all around the globe, almost as if showing we worry and that people have big what to care about. Be concerned is part of the culture, an expectation of responsible people. And unfortunately, Christians are no different. But our company is called to live a life and think in another way from the anxious world all around us. The truth is, fret is sin, but we don't appear for taking it seriously. It is a spiritual problem, which in the end cannot be get over with sheer willpower - its solution is rooted totally in who God is. How do we live life abundantly, with joy, as God has called us to do, when were consumed by anxiety? We have been commanded never to fret, not only in the well-known words of Jesus registered in Matthew 6, but also throughout the Old Testament and the epistles to the chapel. The Bible helps it be clear that the future belongs and then God, who guidelines and it is not at the mercy of the limitations of time. To live on with joy and contentment, trusting God with today's and the future, is a countercultural feat that may be accomplished only through him. Challenging the idolatrous underpinnings of fret, former Christianity Today exec Amy Simpson stimulates us to root our faith in who God is, not inside our own perseverence. We don't often give much considered to why fret offends God, but indulging stress binds us to mere options and window blinds us to the truth. Appropriately understanding the theology of fret is critical to true transformation. This is an audiobook not only for folks who fret; this is a call to the chapel to carefully turn its eyes from the things of globe and fix its eyes on the author and completer of the faith.
