May 2, 2012

• Worrying

  Isn't it neat when you meet new people and God uses them to remind you of an important truth? 

  I had the pleasure of conversation with an older gentleman who just happened to be from my mountains.  He shared a story about a friend of his whose son came home drunk.  He said his friend looked his son up and down, then looked toward the heavens and said, "Lord, looks to me like you have a problem."  He turned around and went to bed.  Two weeks later, his son got saved and never came home drunk again.  And there you have it.  The profound truth. 

  The man couldn't do anything about his son's choices.  Worrying wasn't going to change it.  Being upset wasn't going to change it.  He did the one thing that would change it.  He gave the problem to the Lord. 

  

  "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 important than food, and the body more important 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"  Matthew 6:25-27

  My husband recently had a worry offering at our church.  He gave everyone the opportunity to write their worries on a card and give them in an offering to the Lord. Perhaps you'd like to offer God your worries?  Give them to Him and rest easy knowing He's got it. 

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