Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3: 5-6

Today’s blog focusses on worry. Let’s look at the advantages of worrying. First, it allows you to center all your attention on one thing or issue. Secondly, because it has your attention, you know exactly where it is, what is happening to it and you can almost guess (or assume) where it’s going or how it will turn out. Lastly, when you worry, you take ownership of the thing you are worried about. It becomes you or possibly you become it. Either way, it’s got you and you have it!

Well, I don’t know about you, but quite frankly I don’t want to worry about much in life. I accepted Christ to be saved and not let this old world bother me. Yet, at times I do tend to worry about things….and if your worries are like mine…they are OUT OF YOUR CONTROL! As a child of God, He offers to take our worries and concerns and deals with them in HIS own way. That relieves us from owning it…or it owning us, and frees us to focus on Him instead of the item of concern. I truly believe with all of my heart, Satan puts things and people in our life to take our focus OFF God and onto the worrisome issue. Would you say that is a fair assumption?

What’s got you worried, keeping you up at night, thinking about it all day long, trying to sort it out in your mind and trying to predict what might happen? Friend, if this is you, release the chains that bind and give it completely over to God. When you worry about something, it’s like that thing is in your hands. When your hands are full of the world’s worries, you leave no room to grasp God’s blessings.  Let Go and Let God have your worries. He has your back. Trust Him!

God bless