Overcoming Anxiety (EP 175)

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Bryce Crawford 0:00

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce. And today we have our first solo episode of 2026. I'm really excited. You know, I've missed the solo episodes. You know, don't get me wrong. It's a privilege to get to sit down with guests and talk and hear and, you know, dialogue and things like that. But Ultimately, like I love these episodes. These episodes are sweet. It's like we're in, you know, the living room together talking and diving into scripture and many different things. And I kind of wanted to start off the year with something I struggled with for a long time. And I think something that people still struggle with to this day, and that's anxiety.

Bryce Crawford 0:36

I wanted to make an episode on anxiety because I think it's important. And even the wisest man to ever live on earth outside of Jesus, Solomon, Even wrote himself, anxiety weighs a man's heart down. And when I hear that, I'm just like, man, how true is that? How true is that? That statement, that anxiety does weigh a man's heart down. It weighs your heart down. It weighs my heart down. And to be honest, anxiety can feel like this inescapable, incurable disease that can't be conquered, that can never be fixed, only numbed like Advil does with pain, but with other things, whether it be medication or addictions or sin. So I really wanted to dive into today, Matthew chapter 6, on anxiety. And I think today can be really freeing.

Bryce Crawford 1:34

I think today can be really hopeful. And I pray really sincerely that you find freedom in this passage. If you have your Bibles, go to Matthew chapter 6.

What personal experiences does Bryce share about anxiety?

Bryce Crawford 1:43

We're going to start in verse 25. 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.

Bryce Crawford 2:32

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?

Bryce Crawford 3:15

Shame on you for struggling with something that you shouldn't be bearing. It's not how the Lord treats us with anxiety, but let's just read this passage and dive into it. Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life. What you will eat or what you will drink nor about your body. What you will put on is not life more than food and the body more than clothing. Look at the birds of the air. They neither reap and neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns. And yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his lifespan? I want to come back to verse 27. And why are you anxious about your clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.

Bryce Crawford 3:51

They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?