Yesterday, I had to attend a mandatory continuing legal education seminar.  It was from 8am to 6pm for the next four days.  At lunch, I saw my brother-in-law who drives for us.  I thought he looked rather pale and worried.  When we were stuck in traffic on the way home, he told us that he was not feeling normal.  I asked for his symptoms and I texted the symptoms to my brother who is a doctor specializing in trauma medicine.  He said that we should get a bp reading.  When we got home, and finished taking his bp, I texted my brother again and he replied that his impression of the symptoms is that it is a hypertensive urgency.So we brought him to the ER. 
We were overly tired from the seminar and adrenalized from the medical emergency.  I found myself unable to sleep…I thought about my husband, he’s 57 and is also a candidate for hypertensive urgency.  I am 43 years old and may as well be a candidate for hypertensive urgency.  I am facing medical issues myself that may require surgery eventually.  I have to admit that I was vicariously affected.  I could not help but identify with my brother in law and his family.

So as I lay there, I prayed to the Lord for peace.  I asked the Lord for a promise to hold on to.  The phrase ‘take no thought for your life’ came to mind ( Matthew 6:25).  Every time I had a scary thought regarding our health and well-being, I would recite the verse “take no thought for your life.”  This went on for about two hours until I finally drifted off to sleep.

Some people will say that this is an anxiety attack or a panic attack.  The Bible calls it spiritual warfare.  We are commanded to cast down imaginations (thoughts) and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ.  We are also commanded to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

God has not given us the spirit of fear, after all.  So that if I find myself afraid, I am compelled to bring my fearful thoughts to Christ and make my mind submit to him.  Only Christ is to be feared.  And if I fear anything or anyone else but Jesus Christ, then, I am erecting an idol.

I am not a spiritual giant.  I only hold on to the promise that no one can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  I hold on to the promise that we are more than conquerors through Christ.
Godspeed on your own spiritual warfare, dear readers.