WORRY
January 31, 2008
Have you been worrying lately? Worry is a common thing. How do you deal with your worry?
Well, firstly you need to ask yourself, “What am I worrying about?” A study was done recently about the things that people worry about.
Here are the results:
- 40% of the worries were about things that never happened or would never happen.
- 30% of the worries were things in the past for which they could do nothing about.
- 12% were worries about health and worry actually worsens your health.
- 10% were about petty or minor worries.
- Only 8% of the worries were about anything substantial or legitimate and of that 8%, half, or 4%, of them were out of the person’s control.
- That means only 4% were something that they could actually do something about.
The research therefore reveals that 96% of what we worry about is totally irrelevant. It’s not worth worrying about!
So why don’t you evaluate your worries today. If you can do something about it go ahead and do it, but with the rest just leave it. Don’t worry. Trust in God.
Worry … Think about it.
Jesus Himself told us not to worry in Matthew 6:30-34 (The Message):
"If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?
What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving.
People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions.
Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
"Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
Posted by: Jackson Rimbo | January 31, 2008 at 01:20 PM
Sign outside a church read : WHY PRAY, WHEN YOU CAN WORRY, which was an excellent way to make a point about prayer and its effects on the believer.
Good one Mark about how irrelevant most of our worrying is.
Posted by: Mark Corea | February 01, 2008 at 04:21 PM