The Thief

Most have heard the Bible verses about not worrying about tomorrow, tomorrow will worry about itself.  Before that statement, Jesus points out that the flowers that will die or be trampled upon are more beautiful than the richest man in the world.  If God cares enough to make them beautiful how much more does he care about a person whom he loves.

With this knowledge that my heavenly father, my Daddy, loves me enough to care about the simplest details of my life, I should be able to rest in the knowledge that He will take care of whatever needs taking care of.  No amount of worry can change anything.

I have surgery tomorrow, not just any surgery: back surgery.  I did everything in my power to avoid this surgery, to fix myself so that it wouldn't be necessary.  In the face of the unknown and the scary, I choose to trust.  Each moment a worry or concern tries to sneak into my mind, I send it to my Daddy and let him know that He has to take care of it.  I can't control anything.  I can't think my way through the surgery.  I can't worry away the risks.  I can trust.  I can know that I am doing the right thing and trust that the results will work out.  At the end of the day I will always be victorious because I trusted and did not learn on my own understanding.

Worry is a thief.  It steals our peace of mind and replaces it with panic.  It steals our time as we run through our worrisome thoughts.  It steals our hope and replaces it with doubt.  It steals our joy and replaces it with fear.  It steals our present, our mind is so fixed on the "what ifs" of the future that we miss out on the moment.

Choosing to not worry isn't easy.  It is extremely difficult and doesn't happen just once.  The choice happens over and over.  Each moment that a worrisome thought sneaks in, the choice must be made again and again.

As you venture into the next scary moment, choose to hope, choose to trust.  Do everything in your power to keep the worry away.



Matthew 6:25-34
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 than food, and the body more 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? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

And why do you worry about clothes?  See how the flowers 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 . . .?  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.