He Restores What the Locust Ate

Maybe part of your anxiety comes from a painful reckoning: the time you feel anxiety has already stolen from you. The years you lived in fear, the opportunities you missed while paralyzed, the good moments that slipped by while you worried about something that never even happened. That lament creeps in: "I've lost so much time." For that specific grief, God has a rare and beautiful promise: "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten." He is able to redeem even lost time — not by turning back the clock, but by giving new meaning to what seemed wasted, turning what you learned through pain into fruit, transforming your story of struggle into help for others. Nothing you've walked through with God is a total loss; He gathers up the pieces and hands back a harvest. You are not condemned to only mourn what fear devoured. Today, hand over to God not just the future, but also the past you grieve. Ask Him to restore it. The God who heals tomorrow also redeems yesterday.