The Problem With Worry

These past couple posts since I started writing again have taught me more than I thought..I had the mindset before of putting my thoughts on here to share with others..But now I'm realizing that these words aren't my words, so while it'd be awesome if people were getting stuff from my posts, I feel like every time I post I am able to learn something myself.

So I figure, why not talk about probably the greatest sin struggle I have.

Worry.

And YES. It is a sin to worry.

"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 so much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" Matthew 6:25-27

So if you look back in Exodus where the ten commandments are listed, how do each of the commands start?

Thou shalt not

Thou shalt

etc..

And in Matthew, JESUS, the Son of GOD, who conquered death...is giving a sermon centuries later and he is commanding us not to worry. Just like the Israelites were given the ten commandments, this is something our Father and Savior is commanding us not to do.

Because what's the opposite of worry?

Trust.

"Trust in the LORD with all of your heart, and LEAN NOT on your OWN UNDERSTANDING. In all your ways ACKNOWLEDGE HIM and He will make your paths STRAIGHT."

Think about it. When we choose to worry, we are choosing to not trust in God and the things He has promised.  And when we choose not to trust in God..we are choosing to trust in something else.

And that's what idolatry is.

How crazy is it that when we practice idolatry, we are expecting something besides God to supply for our every need! We are worshipping the created over the creator. And when we choose to allow ourselves to worry, we aren't just putting our hope and trust in something besides God.

We're choosing to make ourselves and our ways our own idol.

It's like saying.."Yeah, God..I know you hold the earth and you created me, and you do everything for the good of those who love you....But I just don't believe it, so I'm gonna just sit and worry about it."

When we worry, we are essentially calling God a liar.

And I am talking to myself more than ya'll could know right now. If I spent all my time praying instead of worrying..even just praying in general about my relationship with the Lord,not just the things I'm worried about...Wow would my life be radically different.

And I can't speak for everyone, but I know the very reason why I worry.

Control.

When it comes to my future, to my success, to anything ME related, I want to be in control. I love security, I love knowing things are going to work out. But wow, God does not call us to an easy life, or to a life of security. He calls us to pick up our cross daily and die to ourselves.

What does your cross look like? If it's a worry-cross, a control-cross, man take it up with the LORD! Every day I have to remind myself who is in control, and who's running the show..Because honestly, if I were in control all the time like I desire to be..wow, we would have a problem. 

Let go, because our wonderful FATHER has got our backs.