Sadie Robertson Huff has some encouraging words for anyone dealing with anxiety.
“Anxiety isn’t always a bad thing. Anxiety is a human thing,” she said while speaking at the MVMNT Conference. “Anxiety doesn’t disqualify you from doing something. Anxiety, sometimes it’s just gonna be there and that’s the place that you’re gonna meet God in, and then God’s gonna give you peace in the midst of the anxiety.”
Huff continued, “I started to realize that God would come to all these people throughout the scriptures, and the first thing He would say was, ‘Do not be afraid.’…God said that because He knows we are afraid. God says ‘Do not be afraid’ because He has so much compassion [for] our humanity, [saying] ‘I know this is scary, I know I’m putting you in a place to trust, I know I’m putting you in a place of faith…that’s a scary place to be…but I want you to trust that I’m there, so I’m going to go ahead and tell you you don’t have to be afraid.’”
“Anxiety doesn’t have to define you, friend!” she captioned an Instagram post sharing a video of her sermon. “No matter what, God will meet you right where you are.”
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Huff has previously shared her own anxiety struggles. In a 2020 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Huff described how she recognized her anxiety was a more serious issue.
“It wasn’t really until I called it fear that I really tried to fix the problem,” she explained. “I say that because I think a lot of times we can fall in the excuse of, ‘Oh, I’m just an anxious person’ … but for me, I knew it was beyond that. It was fear gripping my life.”
In a 2023 conversation with her mother Korie, the DUCK DYNASTY star explained that she dealt with postpartum anxiety following the birth of her first child. When she got pregnant for the second time, Huff wanted to make sure she was prepared to face it again.
“Fear is a normal human reaction, you’re going to be afraid of things that are scary,” she explained. “I don’t really think that you should live fearless, I think if you don’t have any fear, you don’t have much wisdom.”
Huff then addressed others who might be suffering from anxiety — “You’re going to feel the emotion of fear, that’s a normal thing, but there’s a difference in feeling it and almost like bowing to it and living in it.”
Many people struggle with anxiety and other worries, but Huff’s words are a reminder that God will meet us where we are.
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