Bryce Crawford

To get some context, I'm not...

reading this scripture and teaching the scripture from a place of shame.

And Jesus doesn't make this statement about anxiety out of a place to shame you either.

And I remember, man, I grew up in a private Christian school.

I grew up going to church.

I'd been to camps.

I have heard this passage preached almost in a phrase of, man, why do you struggle with anxiety?

You know, like, why do you struggle with that?

You shouldn't struggle with that.

You should not struggle with anxiety.

That's what I always thought Jesus meant when he says in verse 25, therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life.

Do not be anxious about your life.

The amount of times I've heard that said and preached and shared, it's like, why are you anxious?

You shouldn't be anxious.

You shouldn't be struggling with anxiety and depression.

You shouldn't be struggling with that.

You should actually, like it's almost the way that it was communicated was to make me feel bad as a human being for when I did struggle with anxiety and depression to go, man, I must be hardwired wrong or God must have screwed up when he made me because I struggle with anxiety or depression.

And that is a total lie from the pit of hell.

Why do you think, and I'm not saying this in a shameful way, I'm even telling my younger self this, why would I ever think that the Lord himself would be like, shame on you for struggling with something I never designed you to struggle with?

Shame on you for struggling with something that you shouldn't be bearing.