Separation anxiety, worry, nervousness, anxiousness, fear, uncertainty, doubt.

 

Separation anxiety, worry, nervousness, anxiousness, fear, uncertainty, doubt.

 

Separation – or separate – to put or keep apart, disjoin. To serve to keep apart, as a barrier does. To go different ways, part.

 

Separation – the act or process of separating or the state of being separated.

 

Anxiety – a state of uneasiness, worry. Abnormal fear that lacks a specific cause.

 

Anxious – uneasy, worried.

 

Nervous – excitable, jumpy. Worried, apprehensive.

 

Worry – to feel or cause to feel anxious or distressed. Mental anxiety or distress.

 

Distress – to cause anxiety or misery to, trouble greatly. Anxiety or suffering. When two people who love one another separate there is an initial reaction or anxiety that naturally comes because of the unknown.

 

Unknown – not familiar. Not identified or determined.

 

What it is, is fear of the unknown. What is going to happen? After time this fear goes away because one develops the ability to cope without the other person. We all learn to cope with the loss of someone we love. Some of us handle it better than others emotionally, but we do learn to cope, we have to, we don’t have a choice.

 

Then when two people come back together again after a lengthy absence, there is a reuniting anxiety that creeps in because one has developed the skills necessary to cope without the other individual while they were away. Now they become anxious about the return of the other party.

 

First we had separation anxiety, and then we have reuniting anxiety. This is only natural.

 

What does the Lord tell us about anxiety in general?

 

1 Peter 5:7, 8 – Cast your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Proverbs 12:25 – An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. Philippians 4:6, 7 – Do not be anxious about anything but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God. And the peace of the Lord, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Jesus Christ.

 

Heavenly Father asks us to be content regardless of the circumstances. Philippians 4:11 – I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.

 

He also instructs us not to worry. Matthew 6:27 – Who by worrying can add a single hour to his life. Matthew 6:34 – Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. At the end of verse 30 and the beginning of verse 31 in Matthew 6 – he says Oh you of little faith, why do you worry?

 

Worrying, anxiousness, anxiety are all seeds of the devil. When people separate and then reunite it is a time of joy, not concern, happiness, not uneasiness, peace not uncertainty, love not fear. Heavenly Father will see us through every transition if we but have the faith of a mustard seed. There is no time to worry in life, there is plenty of time to prayer and read the scriptures.

 

Thank you Heavenly Father for bringing peace into my heart. I know that my weaknesses are made strong through you.

 

I also know that nothing good comes from man, only God.

 

I thank you for my life, I commit to taking one day at a time and seeking answers to my questions of life through you, not other men. What a glorious day it is to be alive in Christ. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.