WHAT IS WORRY?

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 6:25 ” For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?

The keys to hell are doubt and fear. Doubt is the opposite of faith and fear is the opposite of trust. Worry is manufactured fear. It hasn’t happened yet and probably won’t. Ninety percent of you worry about isn’t going to happen and 10 percent you can’t do a thing about it. So in summary, worry is sinful and the root of disease that causes all kinds of ills.

This invented fear is essentially borrowing trouble. Be careful about what you needlessly worry about because it may be self-fulfilling. You just may inadvertently cause adverse circumstances to evolve in your cob-web of illusion and thus create a world of misery.

Certain people that know as “worry-warts” bring the feared problem in themselves and become convinced that this mental suicide is unavoidable. Slowly their defenses begin to drop and they become in all kinds of slow death events to materialize.

Worry is a grievous sin and very disgraceful to God. You are certifying that you don’t trust Jesus to handle your expected adversities. You are quite convinced He can’t handle this problem you are sure may happen. The whole exercise of fear before our Lord is a total waste of time.

All you are doing is committing a crime in the courts of heavenly justice. You don’t understand that it’s Satan that lives in a prison cell with his fellow Christians. You have forgotten that you dwell in the heavenlies where you trusttt   in Christ has produced generous dividends and much profit.

Why self-inflict this mental cruelty? You can be set free by confessing Jesus as your Lord and living accordingly. Anything less is spiritual cancer. Don’t be dead on your feet but be alive in your inner-most soul. It is not at all profitable to worry. When the horizon looks it’s bleakest is when you will learn “how deep is your love.” Trust and obey because there’s no other way.