Here's a scripture for today which was really helpful to me as I struggled with panic attacks as we took our car trip that kept me away from the website. I posted it on a string of other "Scripture for the Day" messages, then had to get off really quickly. I got on several days later to see it was buried quite a few pages back with the dates of the other entries it was attached to being about a week prior, so probably nobody saw it. These verses were so encouraging to me on the panic attack inducing car trip that I wanted to share:
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." Hebrews 12: 2 - 3
I found that if I remembered to cry out to the Lord for help, expressing my inability to handle this IBS panic attack on my own, and then fixed my eyes on Jesus through praising Him along with praise music on the CD player, that He would provide calm, peace, and relief. Even though we scorn the shame that our IBS sometimes brings to our lives, we must not focus our eyes on that. It will pass. Jesus did not focus on the pain of going to the cross--He focused on the joy of redeeming us. We must keep our eyes on Jesus, who endured shame, in order to give us eternal life where we will not suffer like this any longer, and, in the process, to give us the model for how to endure trials.
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