Remedy for Jumpy Nerves


Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.--Col. 3: 15.

Trust in Him and let His will rule your life, and the peace of God will rule in your heart. We are made to live within the will of God, and when we get outside of His will and go contrary to it, there is disharmony and dispeace.

We hear nowadays much about mental disorders and disarranged nerves. Many physical ailments have their source in a disordered or disturbed mind. Nerves are shattered by fears and worries secreted in the brain cells. The manifestation is physical; the root of the trouble is mental. The physician today diagnoses not only the body but the mind. He is concerned with the thoughts as well as the aches and pains. He inquires about anxieties, troubles at home, in the business, in the private life. He endeavors to find out what his patient has been putting into his brain cells. In many cases, he relies on mental treatment, rather than physical treatment.

Here is a great opportunity for applying Christian teaching. If you have nothing more to suggest, it is no use telling the patient to be strong and stand up to it, or to take a course of reading in humorous literature, or to seek amusement to get away from himself. The trouble is, we come back to ourselves. Reading, music and entertainment have their value. But such treatment does not touch the root of the trouble.

If there is to be victory over the strain and cares and fears that have broken down our nerves, we must look to God, trust Him, and get into harmony with His will. That will bring harmony and peace in the life.

If we are to overcome worry and anxiety and have peace in our hearts, we must come back to God--the God of peace and the quiet mind; we must believe that God is able to keep and sustain us, that we are in His arms of love and that nothing can ever hurt the real self as long as we trust Him and do His will.

Paul was not jumpy, and not likely to have the jitters, when he said, “I know whom I have trusted, and I am certain that He is able to keep what I have put into His hands” (II Tim. 1: 12, Moffatt). Such trust gives one confidence, and by the peace of God in his heart. Therein lies the remedy for jumpy nerves.