“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” – Philippians 4:6
Edvard Munch is best known as being a Norwegian born, expressionist painter, and printer. His artwork is characterized by strong mental anguish that was displayed in many of the pieces that he created. His most famous work is known as “The Scream”.
Munch was born in Norway in 1863 and was raised in Oslo. Only a few years after he was born, Edvard Munch's mother died of tuberculosis in 1868, and his father raised him. Edvard's father suffered from mental illness, and this played a role in the way he and his siblings were raised. Their father raised them with the fears of deep-seated issues, which is part of the reason why the work of Edvard Munch took a deeper tone, and why the artist was known to have so many repressed emotions as he grew up.
Many of Munch's works depict life and death scenes, love and terror, and the feeling of loneliness was often a feeling which viewers would note that his work patterns focused on.
Munch was not a Christian and did not believe in God. He said: “For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”
As Christians, when worry enters our life, we need to draw near to our Heavenly Father and give our anxiety to Him. Today in prayer, give the Lord all of your worries and receive from Jesus His perfect peace.
“No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear.” – George Macdonald
God’s Word: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?” – Matthew 6:25
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