It amazes me how I can be doing great, then one tiny little thing creeps int
o my mind and causes worry. I am really surprised that I dont have more ulcers than I do. Some of my worries are financial, worry about the foundation of my house, I worry about how friends are doing, I worry about how I am doing as a husband and a father.
Knowing that I was going to blog about this a little bit, I thought of the only scripture that I know that deals with worry. It reads:
“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? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Matthew 6:25-34
God knows that I am worried. My challenge is to focus on God. I know that he will take care of my family. He always has. I know that he will provide for my family at just the right time…he always does. But it is hard for me sometimes to keep my mind, heart, faith focuses on God. I am being too selfish…too egotistical…too prideful. I cannot, under my own power, take care everything. But I can put myself in place to receive from God. And for me that starts with being in HIS word, talking to HIM on a daily basis (which I struggle to do sometimes), and not treating God as a “last resort,” but making sure that God is first. First one I talk with…first one I listen to.
Worry is the tool of the devil. If I can be worried, the devil can keep me from God. Love what Jesus said in Matthew…such a great reminder. He said, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” I know that I am one prayer away from being in God’s presence…but I need to mature some and remember that if worry is trying to creep in…I need to hit my knees in prayer.
I dont know if you struggle with worry, but if you do…you arent alone. I am worry wart…hopefully soon…a recovering worry wart!
