Luke 12:25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
I used to worry ALL the time…about any and everything; I would stress any particular situation to the max. I’ll worry did I say this the right way…will I be able to do this…should I say this or will it offend someone. I would, sometimes still do, actually worry to the point of getting sick to my stomach and having a migraine headache by the end of the day. Then when the time comes or it’s all said and done it wasn’t as bad as I thought and even if it was what did my worrying do to help?
It’s crazy how I will know something is coming or know I have to do something and will run every possible scenario through my mind. How I’ll do this or that? I’ll even run possible conversations that may occur through my mind. If this person says this, then I’ll say that and by the time I’m finished I’ve run close to three different conversations through my mind…good grief. Truly, it gets me nothing and nowhere but heartache, irritation and even angry at something that hasn’t even taken place yet and my not at all. And, more often than not it ends up turning out different than I even thought it would in the first place. According to God’s word my worrying can fix nothing…yet, I’ve done it anyway.
You see, the problem with worrying is not only the stress that it causes us, but we're rehearsing what we would say, what we would do and how we would fix this or that in our minds without even looking to God. By doing this we’re taking matters into our own hands and leaving God out of the equation; often times ending up with a less than desirable outcome. When we feel ourselves worrying and running over this and that we need to learn to stop, take a moment and pray for God’s peace and direction.
It’s so important for us, myself included, to understand that anything we are able to do is because of God and without Him, we are lost. We can ask Him to help us give the situation to Him and pray that He will guide our steps, every step of the way. Trust me I do understand that this is so much easier said than done, but the more we realize we’re doing it and stop to pray the more natural it will become. The more natural it becomes the more we trust God and worry less…and that is a great place to be!! Who needs all that stress, especially when we don’t really have total control of it all anyway!?!
Now, by no means am I saying that we shouldn’t plan ahead or think things through because we can certainly get ourselves into trouble if we don’t. It’s the overthinking and wondering how we need to do this and that to the point of causing ourselves even more confusion than we had to start off with. God wants us to use our common sense, just not to think we have all the answers and worry about what may or may not happen all the time.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Once we truly learn to trust God with our issues, whether big or small, we can know that they will always turn out for our good…not always easy, but for our good. We’ll find ourselves quicker to pray and ask God what to do than to torture and stress ourselves with worry over what may or may not happen. I think too often we forget that wonderful peace that God offers us….that peace that can keep us even in the middle of a storm. It’s a peace that doesn’t wish the bad away, but instead knows we can stand through the storm because He is with and for us. It truly doesn’t get any better than that!!
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