If you think its wrong to worry, you never have had a teenage son take out your car for the first time, or your daughter who’s date shows up at the door with a face full of metal gee gaughs (old words for junk that sits around on the table at home ) Or the horror of every parent, a child that does not come home and they find their body weeks later....You certainly don’t go around saying....What me worry......
First off, I never said I do not worry, I said it is a sin to worry. What I said is when I do find myself worrying, I pray for God to forgive me for lacking the faith I need to understand that he will take care of the things I have no control over.
As for children, I have 3 children and 6 grandchildren, so I am well aware of the pain, heart ache, and long nights of worry that comes with children who will do many things I have no control over other than raising them to do the right thing, and being an example for them to mimic.
When I do worry, it means I do not have faith that God will take care of all. However, I do worry plenty, and when I do I ask God to forgive me for my lack of faith. I also pray for Him to give me the strength to live with the things I cannot control, and the strength to deal with the pain and suffering that comes from having children who are going to do many things that will hurt them, me, and even strangers I will never meet.
You must understand that God did not give us the capability to worry, that is why all the worrying in the world never salved a problem. God wanted us to take the things we would worry about to Him. He wants us to want Him and to go to Him for advice and comfort. When we worry instead of going to Him, we are telling Him that he does not have the power to care for the things we do not have control over.
Plus, if I can find them, I will share my notes with you from when I taught a lesson on worry. Or maybe I'll write an article for this Sunday and post it to FR on the whole subject from my notes. You would be amazed about the many medical problems that arise in the body from worrying. Just to name one; When you worry, your mouth stops excreting saliva, which leads to cavities and gum disease. Yes, medically proven.
So, worry not, but instead ask you Father in Heaven to take away your worry, and to forgive you for the times you failed to give to Him the things you cannot handle. He wants us to go to Him, just as we want our children to come to us. When they do, we do our best to alleviate their worries. Well, so too will God alleviate ours worries when we take it to him.
If we just had the faith of a mustard seed, we could move mountains, and heal the hurt of our loved ones, along with convincing our enemies to love us. The one thing we need to remember above all, is if we worried not and something bad still happened, that our desire was not in accordance with His will. That is why we pray, not my will, but thy will.
Finally, when Lot lost all he had including hie children and his health, he did not curse God, even though his wife told him to. No, instead, he proclaimed,
"Naked I came from my mother's womb,
And naked shall I return there.
The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the LORD."
God bless you and yours, and May the good Lord strengthen the faith of us all so that we may use the energy for more productive things in our lives.
OV