Worry

What is worry?

In today's world with the uncertainty of money many seem to be in a panic. "Will we have enough? What will I do if we don't? How will we survive?" Many are living in daily fear about the financial situation.

Look at these words of Jesus written over 2000 years ago...

Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."

Easy to write. Easy to read. Easy to agree with but impossible to live without totally abiding in the Almighty.

Why worry? Where does it come from? It comes from our misunderstanding of who's in charge of this ol' world. The LORD God is Sovereign. He is trustworthy. If you believe, rest in, put your full weight upon, had total faith in this truth worry cannot come.

Christian, who is in charge of all things? Do you believe?