Why Worry?

As much as I can, I’ll share to you my insights and reflections every Sunday with Max Lucado’s online devotional to serve as a guide. Why him? Because for me, he is one good narrative writer who can translate well what the Guy Up There feels.

“Continue praying, keeping alert, and always thanking God.”
Colossians 4:2

Two words summarize Christ’s opinion of worry: irrelevant and irreverent. “Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not” (Matt. 6:27 NLT). Worry is irrelevant. It altars nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it? Imagine someone saying, “I got behind in my bills, so I resolved to worry my way out of debt. And, you know, it worked! A few sleepless nights, a day of puking and hand wringing. I yelled at my kids and took some pills, and—glory to worry—money appeared on my desk.”

It doesn’t happen! Worry changes nothing. You don’t add one day to your life or one bit of life to your day by worrying. Your anxiety earns you heartburn, nothing more…

Ninety-two percent of our worries are needless! Not only is worry irrelevant doing nothing; worry is irreverent, distrusting God.

 

1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume 2
Originally printed in Come Thirsty

 

Mirrored:
I am a worry rat and thus, guilty of irreverence. Worry shows lack of trust that God is able to take care of your needs. Worst case, it shows that you don’t trust God at all with the affairs of your life. It shows that you are on the steering wheel and have not totally surrendered to His will.

In my case I think it is tha latter. I believe that God is able but I have not surrendered to His will. I have clinged to myself more than I have clinged to Him. One thing I have learned in life, you cannot entrust to God one aspect of your life while taking control of the other. He shares no glory.