It is said that we live in an “age of anxiety,” so what should we as Christians do in the face of so much anxiety? One thing I do is turn to Psalm 42.

In Psalm 42:5 and again in verse 11, the Psalmist asks, “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed (anxious) within me?” and it is a good question in light of what he proclaims next. “Put your hope in God for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Thus, one way we counter anxiety is we turn to the sure and certain hope that we have in God and that we will yet (future tense) praise him with good reason for having saved us.

But sometimes this doesn’t feel like enough, and it didn’t to the Psalmist either because in verse 6 he acknowledges, “my soul is downcast within me;” and so he prescribes a solution: “Therefore I will remember you…” beautifully remembering God’s sovereign presence with him across time and space.

So, let’s counter anxiety with the hope that we will yet praise our Savior and God and by remembering He is with us everywhere and all the time working all things together for our good.