Why Worry                  

The Bible says, “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Matthew 6:31-34 (KJV)

A man went to his psychiatrist and he said, “Sometimes I think I’m a tepee and sometimes I think I’m a wigwam.”

The psychiatrist said, “Your problem is you’re too tents.”

Worry is fear’s extravagance. It extracts interest on trouble before it comes due. It constantly drains the energy God gives us to face daily problems and to fulfill our many responsibilities. It is therefore a sinful waste. A woman who had lived long enough to have learned some important truths about life remarked, “I’ve had a lot of trouble; most of which never happened!” She had worried about many things that had never occurred and had come to see the total futility of her anxieties.

An unknown poet has written: “I heard a voice at evening softly say, Bear not your yesterdays into tomorrow, Nor load this week with last week’s load of sorrow. Lift all your burdens as they come, nor try To weigh the present with the by-and-by. One step and then another, take your way; Live day by day!”

It has been said, “90 percent of the things we worry about the most never happen! The same Heavenly Father who keeps the universe in order is watching over His Children and nothing is going to happen to us that does not come over His desk first. There are some three hundred and sixty five times in scripture we are told to “fear not”, enough for each day of the year. Keep your focus upon the Lord! He will see us through!  

Daily Chronological Bible Reading: Isaiah 44-48;