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To: Alamo-Girl

There are good aspects of worry that remove it for me from any list of sins. Thank the Lord you would worry if your children were playing near a busy highway. That worry would cause you to take precautions. Unlike adultery, which has no positive moments, worry can be beneficial, so I do not see it related to pride


1,221 posted on 06/24/2012 12:21:05 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins; betty boop
Thank you for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!

I meant to narrowly define "worry" as a sin when we do it after we have cast our problem before God.

Surely being worried about a charging hungry bear is not a sin but a gift of God.

But if I entrust a specific concern before God, it is sin for me to then pick it up again as if I did not trust Him with it in the first place.

And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them]. - Mark 11:22-24

And again,

And immediately Jesus stretched forth [his] hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? - Matt 14:31

God's Name is I AM.

1,225 posted on 06/25/2012 10:15:36 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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