What keeps your mind spinning at night?
What buzzes through your brain when you toss and turn in the dark?
There’s a quote that says, “Worry won’t prevent your death, but it will steal your life.”
We can rephrase that to apply to other situations.
Worry won’t keep your car on the road, but it will steal your joy in driving it.
Worry won’t keep your roof from leaking, but it will keep you from enjoying the rain.
Worry won’t make the stock market go up, but it will rob you of enjoying your investments.
Worry won’t keep you healthy, but it will cripple your adventuresome spirit.
So, what can we do when worry seems to overwhelm us? Matthew 6:28-29 gives us a good start:
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
So, drive your car. Walk in the rain. Save a lot but spend some of it, too. Hug your children and your grandchildren, if you have them.
What we need to understand is that God has given us a beautiful life. Filling it up with things doesn’t fulfill the need we have inside. People, experiences, God, those are the things that make life worth living, that will satisfy us, and that will stay with us until the end of our days.
Let’s focus on God’s Word, use prayer to find direction, and place our faith in him. Then, when good things come our way, take time to enjoy them as the gifts that they are.
God is our gift-giver, and in him, we can enjoy a worry-free lifestyle every day.
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