Worry wastes.

Worry disables.

Worry squanders mercy.

Worry can be overcome.

What does worry do?

If you worry-you know.

One web-based source explains the effects of worry this way:

“Chronic worrying can affect your daily life so much that it may interfere with your appetite, lifestyle habits, relationships, sleep, and job performance.”

Worry is unnecessary.

…a waste of: energy, time, health and MERCY…God’s.

That’s correct God’s mercy.

Once, a person in the Bible said:

 

   “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

        all the days of my life,

    and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD

        forever.” (Psalm 23:6)

His name was David. He served as Israel’s king. Do kings worry?

Read it again-worry is a waste.

Why?

Jesus said so…”Do not worry about your life…”

When your friend says “Don’t worry.” Does that give you confidence? While they may mean well, we know our friends are really powerless to fix our worries.

The photo for this blog is of the constellation Orion, The Hunter. Jesus put these stars in order…(the ones in the photo!)

What helped King David when he worried? He knew the one who ordered the stars.

“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place…” Psalm 8:3

The heavens are the work of His fingers! With that in mind-Here are HIS words again, “Do not worry about your life.” Another thing…No human has the ability to give true peace…or hope … or joy…or EVERLASTING MERCY. Jesus does.

Ready now? Read the words of the One who died that we might have our sins forgiven and inherit life forever…ask Him to enable you to believe what He says about worry…

Matthew 6:25-34 “Do Not Be Anxious”

[25] “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious 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? [26] Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? [27] And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? [28] And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, [29] yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. [30] But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? [31] Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ [32] For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. [33] But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

[34] “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

Friend…worry is a waste of Perfect mercy. But there is no need for guilt. All of us worry. You CAN do something  about worry…

Give your worries-all of them- to Jesus.