Are You a Worrier?
Are you a worrier? I think it comes with the job description of
Mom. Seems like there is always something you can worry about.
As a child I memorized Philippians 4:6. This is what I
memorized, "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything pray."
Recently, I rediscovered this verse and found I had not done a
complete memorization. The verse says, "Do not be anxious about
anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your requests to God." Did you catch the
big point I was missing? "With thanksgiving." When you pray to
God about your worries are you also thanking Him for all your
blessings? For me it has given me a whole new way to think about
my worries and prayer. For example, you can start out something
like this, "God, thank you for choosing me as your child,
providing food to eat, my home, my husband, my children, and all
the many blessings You have given me. Because, You have been
faithful in the past and You always keep Your promises, I know
You can handle this worry _________ of mine right now. Lord, I
give it to You. Thank You again for Your faithfulness. When we
spend more time thanking God for all the things He has done for
us our worries seems small in the hands of a really big God.
Recently, we were reading in Genesis with our children and I
found an excellent example of not trusting God with your
worries. We were reading about Lot and his daughters. If you
will remember after God rescued them from Sodom and Gomorrah,
Lot's daughters were worried they would not have children or a
husband. So, they got their father drunk and they "laid" with
him in order to have children. My children's first reaction was
"gross". Hey, I agree. Then, I pointed out something even deeper
about this passage. Lot's daughters had just witnessed God
rescuing them from total destruction. God chose their family and
no other to live. How powerful and amazing. How special they
were in God's eyes. Yet, after witnessing the marvelous and
destructive power of God, who saved them from utter destruction,
they could not trust God to find them husbands. Oh, how that
must have grieved God. The God who saved their lives certainly
can be trusted to find them husbands. But, no they didn't trust
God and decided to come up with their own plan. I'm afraid we
are guilty of the same "type" of sin. Not trusting God to come
through for us and we scheme to figure out a way to make it work.
Dear Reader, whatever your worry is today you have a God who
chose you and loved you enough to send His only Son to die for
you. Do you not think your God cannot handle and work out
whatever is worrying you? You have an awesome Father who is just
waiting to take all your worries and continue to show His
faithfulness. Give your worries to Him and leave them there.