Section 8
secret? Our circumstances may change. In cer tain circumstances we may abound, and in oth ers we may be abased. But whether we abound or are abased, the enjoyment of the Lord is the same.
COUNTERACTING ANXIETY
If we have learned the secret, we shall know how to counteract anxiety. If you are in pov erty, there is no need for you to be anxious or to worry. The Lord is still at hand, and He will take care of you. By nature, we are given to worry, to anxiety. This is true as much of the rich as it is of the poor. Those who are poor have their particular worries, and those who are rich have theirs. Only those who are truly in Christ in their experience and who are inwardly empow ered by Him have no need to worry or to be anxious.
We have pointed out that when the church at Philippi did not have the opportunity to sup ply Paul, he was in want. He was humiliated and abased. Do you think that during that time of abasement Paul was worrying? We may have the ground to answer this question with both a yes and a no. On the one hand, we can say that Paul was not worried, for he tells us that he had