Worrying Will Get You Nowhere!

Glenn Turner, a foreign athlete from years gone by once said: “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.” In year’s past, I have found myself overcome with anxiety about upcoming events in life. The anxieties my mind would create would hinder my sleep, my ability to concentrate, even my ability to carry on life in normalcy. Long story short, the reason for the anxiety rarely resulted in a situation as bad as the spell of anxiety itself. You can relate, I am sure.

Jesus addressed this particular situation with these words: “don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear. For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds? Can any of you add a cubit to his height by worrying? If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?” (Luke 12:22-26)

You arise in the morning to discover that the tomorrow you worried so much about yesterday is not as bad as your thoughts led you to believe it would be. Our worry has a way of making tomorrow’s problems and troubles seem so much bigger than they turn out to be. Our imaginations run wild and our anxieties build. The little thing becomes gigantic as we conintue to allow it to overwhelm us. Overwhelming anxiety and worry is a chief cause of suicide in our society today.

Think about it, Jesus tells us “don’t worry about your life!” He’s got this. He’s got your back. He is here for you and He will take you through the problems and bring you out victorious on the other side. What you feed, will grow. If you feed your anxieties, you will worry more and more. If you feed your faith and trust, it will grow. Trust God to give you the grace to overcome the troubles of the tomorrows. Worrying will get you nowhere but frustrated and troubled. Trust God today!