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Selah & Psalms with Jane Morin

Have you ever had one of those days when absolutely nothing has happened… and yet you are convinced something terrible is about to? You wake up. You make your coffee. You look out the window. And for absolutely no identifiable reason, your brain announces:

“Something bad is coming.”

Wonderful. Apparently, your nervous system has decided it is now a prophet.

Welcome to the mysterious world of the sense of doom. It's that unsettling feeling that something terrible is about to happen even when you have no evidence that anything actually is about to happen. Sometimes it can be so convincing that you start looking for clues.

The phone rings.

“That's probably bad news.”

Someone says, “Can I talk to you?”

“Well, this is obviously the beginning of the end.”

Your spouse says, “We need to talk.”

And suddenly you're mentally dividing up the furniture.

Our minds can be remarkably creative. Unfortunately, they're not always creative in helpful ways. But here's the important question: What does the Bible say when fear tells us something terrible is coming?

David understood fear. He wrote in Psalm 56:3:

“When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”

I love the honesty of that verse. David didn't say, “When I'm afraid, I pretend I'm not.” He also did not say, “When I'm afraid, I search the internet until I become even more afraid.”

He said, “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”

Fear may be real. But fear doesn't have to be in charge. And that brings us to something we need to understand:

Fear and discernment aren't the same thing.

There are times when God prompts us to pay attention. There are times when we need to prepare, make a wise decision, or recognize that something isn't right. But there is a difference between a godly prompting and a mind trapped in perpetual catastrophe mode.

Fear says:

“Something terrible is coming.”

Faith says:

“Whatever comes, God will be with me.”

Fear says:

“You need to figure everything out right now.”

Faith says:

“I can trust God with what I don't know.”

Jesus spoke directly to our tendency to worry about what hasn't happened yet.

Matthew 6:34 says:

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.”

In other words:

Tomorrow already has enough responsibilities. You don't need to take its shift. And yet that's exactly what we do. We worry about conversations that haven't happened. Problems that haven't occurred. Bills we haven't received. Bad news we haven't heard, and as well as, scenarios our imagination has produced with absolutely no supporting evidence.

Sometimes we've suffered three imaginary tragedies before breakfast. But Scripture gives us another way to respond.

Philippians 4:6–7 tells us:

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”

And then comes the promise:

“And the peace of God… will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

I love that word: Guard. Because sometimes our minds need a security guard. Not another Google search. Not another conversation with our worst-case-scenario committee. And definitely not a 2 a.m. internet search that somehow convinces us we're dying from a disease we've never heard about.

We need God's peace. We need His Word. We also need prayer. Sometimes we simply need to stop and say:

“Lord, I don't know what's coming. But I know You are already there.”

That's faith. Faith doesn't mean you know what tomorrow will bring. Faith means you know Who will be there when tomorrow arrives. So what do we do when that sense of doom shows up?

First, pause. Don't immediately believe every thought that enters your mind.

Second, pray. Tell God exactly what you're feeling.

Third, check your thoughts against Scripture. Is this a fact, or is it fear writing a story?

And finally, remember God's character. He has not suddenly stopped being God because you woke up anxious. He hasn't lost control because you don't know what happens next. And He isn't asking you to carry tomorrow today.

So when that mysterious sense of doom walks through the door, don't automatically give it a chair at the table. You can acknowledge the feeling without obeying it. You can say:

“I feel afraid, but I am not abandoned.”

“I don't know what tomorrow holds, but God does.”

“I don't have to solve what hasn't happened.”

And maybe most importantly:

Fear may knock on the door, but you don't have to invite it in for cup of tea and cookies.

So today, take a breath. Let your shoulders drop. Give God the thing you've been rehearsing in your mind. And remember Psalm 46:10:

“Be still, and know that I am God.”

You don't have to know everything. You don't have to anticipate everything. You don't have to prepare for every possible disaster. You simply have to trust the One who already sees the whole picture. This is your Selah moment:

Pause. Breathe. Release tomorrow.

God is already there.

Let’s Pray:

Father,

When fear whispers that something terrible is coming, help us remember that You are already in our tomorrow. Give us wisdom to recognize what requires our attention and peace to release what does not.

Guard our hearts and our minds when our thoughts begin racing toward worst-case scenarios. And Lord, teach us to distinguish between Your gentle prompting and the noise of fear.

When we don't know what is coming, help us to put our trust in you, just like David did. We give You our fears, our unanswered questions, our imagined disasters, and everything we cannot control. Replace dread with peace. Replace anxiety with trust. And remind us that we don't have to carry tomorrow with us into this beautiful day.

In Jesus' name,

Amen.

Selah.

STILL HELD

by Bible Teacher and Prophetic Artist, Jane Morin

When you pass through the waters, I
will be with you; and through the
rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall
not be burned, and the flame shall not
consume you.

(Isaiah 43:2)

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