Uploading Anxiety

In this day of apps for Iphone, Ipads and computers in general, downloading has become a new favorite American pasttime.  We download everything from the extremely common to the insanely complex.  Applications abound for nearly anything you can imagine and we are downloading dogs sniffing out the newest thing to add to our arsenal of things to populate our extended brain.

Our minds are constantly engaged in information downloading and problem solving, looking forward with each new innovation to solving problems that each new application promises to put within the reach of our hand-held device.

Only our problems aren't really being solved, our futures aren't being made easier, we're actually more anxiety ridden than ever.  Xanax or whatever one's anxiety-addressing pill might be are being prescribed at record rates.  With all our problem-solving applications and information at the ready, we are less free spirited and more bogged down emotionally than ever.

What can we do?  What is the answer?  While I am tempted to say "Unplug from your computer," I know that really isn't the answer, although it might help to take a time out every now and then.  The real answer isn't found with our without your SmartPhone.  The real answer is what it has always been, long before computers and information overload.  The answer is God.

In regards to the level of anxiety we have today and the general unrest of our spirits, the Bible tells us simply, "[6] Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. [7] Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you" (1 Pet 5:6-7).

Rather than try to manage our anxiety by gaining more control of our tomorrows by downloading another app for our Idevice, our need is to upload our anxiety, our worries, our future concerns to "I Am" (Ex 3:13-14).  In the words of the old but true cliche, "Let go and let God."  That's it?  That's it!  Jus' Sayn.