A Word About Life and Things
Worried
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Worry is like a good rocking chair. It gives you
something to do but doesnt get you anywhere. A
ten-year study of 1,739 Canadian adults found that
having a positive outlook on life can reduce your
risk of heart disease by 22 percent.
During stressful times, when unpaid taxes still lie on the table, the children argue upstairs, and images of war flash across the news, hope, and patience seem hard to come by. Worry seems inevitable. But how much can we really gain from our furrowed brows? We hear this same message about worry from the Lords own mouth when He says to His disciples, Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, or what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these (Luke 12:2224). Our minds are the battlefield between us and the enemy. We win or lose in our minds. The enemy says what are you going to do about this or that? We need to say that we are in the hands of God. He will take care of us. My hope is in Him. We need to talk back to the enemy and lift God up to our enemies. We defeat the enemy by the words of our mouth. We give God the praise that he is taking care of us. New King James Version Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. |