Don’t Worry!!! Worrying Would Hold You Bound!!!

One of the things God counsels us not to do is worry; but if you are like me, you forget this counsel all the time so this blog is for you. You just can’t help but worry from time to time and at those times, you feel like telling anyone who tries to remind you not to worry off. You wonder if they know what they are talking about or sometimes you feel like they just want to say something though they have nothing to say; so they say the first stupid thing that occurs to them. You don’t say it to them directly but the thoughts are somewhere in your head and you are wondering if they understand what you are going through. My counsel today, from one “worrier’ to another is this - take God’s counsel and fight worry. If you are used to worrying, it would have to be a fight to get away from it but it is a fight you will win.

Philippians 4: 6 “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.”

I won’t be surprised if your first reaction to this scripture is “is it possible?” but it is. God is always right and knows what He is talking about. He won’t ask anything of us that is not possible. I have found that all the worrying in the world will not add to move you forward; instead it actually sets you back. When you worry, you are dwelling on a thing and not letting go off it; you are remaining in the place of that thing and your life has actually stopped but you don’t know. You are wasting valuable time. Worrying may appear to be producing solutions but in truth, it never does. You just turn the same ugly situation or challenge over and over in your mind until you are either sad enough to be depressed or you are stressed out. Some have ended up in the hospital for all of these reasons. Guess what? And they still did not have the solution to their problem. 

Psalm 55: 22 “Give all your burdens to the Lord, and He will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.”

Worry is not a state of mind that God ordained. It certainly does not speak of peace. Since God made us, He must know what we are made of and is well aware that we are not built for worrying so He says for us to pass on the entire burden to Him. As soon as we find ourselves beginning to worry, we need to pass it on to Him. It can come but do not let it find a nest in your heart; of a truth, it is energy sapping. If you continue in worrying, you are putting all your strength into negativity and leaving very little or no spiritual strength for believing. It is interesting to note that you cannot be focused on believing whilst worrying. Worrying and believing do not run concurrently; the two do not go together. As often as you find yourself beginning to worry, you need to pass it on to God.

1 Peter 5: 7 “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares for you.”

The longer we focus on worrying, the less faith we have. Before long, our eyes are off God and we feel the need to resolve the issues ourselves and mostly in the wrong way because our decision would most likely be wrong since it was taken in a distressed state. Since we want to go forward, we must be very deliberate about casting our cares on God. It is an attitude that we have to cultivate even if it does not come to us naturally so that the peace of God which is beyond understanding can garrison our hearts. When the peace of God rules in our hearts, we definitely make better decisions and then go forward.