Worry. I worry all the time. Right now? I worry about college. Constantly. It's like this whirlpool that's slowly sucking me down, down, down into its watery grip until its grasp on me is so tight that it threatens to choke me and pull me under entirely. Now if that was where this all ended? This would be a very depressing blog post that would eventually lead to my imminent demise by way of drowning, but good news! That's not where it stops. Because while I may be choking on my worrying, God is there. And He is ripping me out of the whirlpool and into His warm embrace. Worrying? Is just a way that I am telling God that He isn't enough. That I can't trust that He is in control and that He knows what is best for me. Worry takes away from precious time I could be spending in other ways. Worrying can consume you, until all you do is worry instead of enjoying the moments you've been placed in. Worry takes the place of Joy and robs you of precious time and happiness. Because when you worry? You aren't living in the present. You're constantly thinking about the future and the unknown that it brings. When you worry you miss out on the opportunities God has given you right where you are.
In Matthew 6:25-34 it says:
“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.
Moral of the story? Worrying is a waste of time and it undermines the glory of God, and that, my friends, is a sin. Who are we to question the plans of God? He knows. We don't, and we need to trust Him. Once we have given Him control, we can go on with our lives and find the Joy that is contentment in Christ, and oh, the Joy that can be found.
Proverbs 3:5-6:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
