“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.”—Corrie Ten Boom
There’s enough constructive stuff that can keep one occupied today to cloud out that beast that torments us, often referred to as worry. My parents were worried about the possibility of the Russians attacking because that’s what Americans were supposed to do in the fifties. The Soviets never showed up. Someone actually built a bomb shelter in a small town in northern Maine. The Russians had no plans to attack that small community. All that time worrying was wasted.
I was always worried that I wouldn’t be promoted to the next grade. So many of my friends had to repeat and lost a year of their lives. It never happened to me because all I had to do was my homework.
My great concern was not being tall enough to do well playing basketball, when height had little to do with the sport.
Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
The Bible clearly addresses this useless endeavor that we engage in:
Matthew 6:25-26
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
I don’t have this one beat yet, but it sure helps to go over the Scriptures referring to it.
Think about it.
Gary