The Theologian's Table

To My Savior Jesus the Christ, "Paul, the brother and fellow servant you have given me, has done well in reminding your flock about giving thanks to you in all things. As you know, in my quiet hours, I reflect on what you have done, and I cannot fully express how thankful I am to you, but I must tell you one more time." "Thank you, Lord, for calling me, a simple fisherman, to follow you. Thank you, Lord, for giving me my name. Thank you, Lord, for showing me the wonder of your work. Thank you for explaining the life in your words when I was slow to understand and prone to second-guessing. When storms appeared on the horizon without warning, and I feared, thank you for showing me that you are in control! When you called me out upon the water, and I faltered, when I thought I would drown, thank you for reaching out to me amid my doubt, oh Lord, and teaching me what faith is." "Thank you for rebuking me when I tried to box you in. Thank you for showing m...

In my last entry, I talked about my strategy in dealing with anxiety. Mainly, it's summed up in trusting the goodness of God. There are a couple more things though that help me fight anxiety and the one I want to talk about today is worshiping God. More specifically, I want to highlight two worship songs that have helped me immensely, then try and explain why they have helped me, and what I think worship accomplishes for us. The first worship song that I want to highlight is called Fill My Cup, which is fairly new, and its actually from Lee University's worship band on their debut album. Musically, the whole song has this calming effect, but what impacted me the most was just one line of the song, "in you[God] I'm made whole." There are so many theologically significant things I can say about this, but it mainly points me back to what Scripture says about our beings residing in God's care. Psalm 139:13 says, " For it was you who formed my inward par...