What the Incarnation of Christ Means for Anxious Minds
Hebrews 2:17 (ESV)
17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
My heart pounded in my chest as my apple watch blinked an alert: High heart rate at rest. This had increasingly become the norm, and I could not make sense of it.
Many followers of Christ have felt similar to me in this: How can we trust Christ but still have such crippling anxiety? For years I kept close the quote from John Mark Comer that “anxiety is temporary atheism”. After all, it sounded right and came from a widely trusted pastor. But nearly 12 years after originally reading the book that held that quote, I believe there is far more nuance to the conversation of anxiety and faith than that quote makes room for.