What do we mean by Anxious?
It would be better if we substituted the word with worry or fretting. I think anxiety is associated in our minds with something almost clinical like a panic attack, this is talking about the daily stuff that worries us. Stuff that we fret over. Stuff that makes your stomach go into knots and gives you a headache. And a pain in the back of your neck.
I will tell you what it is. It is stewing without doing. It is when it is going around and around and around inside. You are doing nothing about it, because there is nothing to do about it, except to let it bubble and boil in our heads. The words in the languages of the Bible, Hebrew and Greek, mean to be distracted, but from what?
It means to be divided. In modern English. It means to feel that you are falling apart. In the Hebrew it means to be shaken as if you have yourself in the mouth of some dog, like a rag doll that is being shaken to and fro. You will find it in the Old Testament, something like, The righteous shall not be shaken. It means the righteous don’t worry. It means your head isn’t being.
Shaken like a rag doll…
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