Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Worry


Worry is misplaced faith; faith in ourselves.  Idolatry.
Worry makes us pray disbelieving.
Worry keeps us from making the decisions we know we need to make.
Worry allows us to be controlled by others and by our circumstances.
Worry grieves the Holy Spirit.
Worry robs us of our peace, undermines our patience with God and men.
Worry is often disguised as a care-free attitude.
Worry denies the goodness and love of God.
Worry makes no impact on God's sovereignty.  He will still do what is good for His people and what will glorify His name.    We'll just be miserable while He goes about His work in our lives.
Worry makes us insomniacs.
Worry keeps us from enjoying the wondrous things and people that God has brought into our lives.
Worry keeps us a step behind God's leading or rushing a mile ahead of His leading.
Worry is a path of thorns.
Worry is contagious.
Worry often keeps those we love from finding the joy that God intends for them to have.
Worry assumes responsibility for a future that is in God's hands.
Worry is ungodliness with discontentment and makes me spiritually bankrupt.
Worry turns an anthill into Mount Everest.  Life is cold, stormy, seemingly impossible to scale, and we have lost all contact with our Guide and His provisions.
Worry makes us hopeless not hopeful, faithless not faithful, loveless not unconditionally loving.
Worry believes that God blew it yesterday, has lost control of today, and has no idea about how to handle the future.

The Bible does not say:  "And now abides these four:  faith, hope, love, and worry.  And the greatest of these is worry."

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