Worry

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on it. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?" Matthew 6:25-27

I actually really like the entire passage right up until verse 33 but decided against writing it all here. This is one of the passages I had to memorize in high school, I think on more than one occasion. But it never spoke to me the way it does now. A.W. Tozer said, "Absolutely refuse to worry." When I first read that quote by him, I was like "That is SO good buddy!!" But little did I know how good it is.

This week I have had to learn to not worry about my life. I began thinking of everything that could go wrong with college, namely roommates, since I've had past experiences that weren't so pleasant, so I just began worrying that I would get another girl who hated me, or who we couldn't stand each other, etc. Thursday night I just had had it. I had worried far too much, I was stressed out to the max, my head ached and my mom was pushing me to do this, and do that. And finally I told her, "I'm not worried about it. God is in control." The same attitude went through Friday. Sure the thoughts of worry keep creeping up, but the great thing is, I have control over what I think, so I just gotta say "NO!" and move on with life. I have to absolutely refuse to worry, because guess what? I am not adding an hour to my life, I am not adding any height to my life. Rather I do believe that I am taking away from it. I definitely didn't enjoy Wednesday and Thursday, it made me almost physically sick from worrying. But the minute I just said no to it, something changed.

Earlier this morning I was thinking about that. If I refuse to worry about it, that means I am trusting in my sovereign God, knowing that He has good plans for me. I do my part but the rest is up to Him. I can't control anything, so why not let Him control it?? By not worrying, I'm trusting in Him, like Proverbs 3 tells me too.

So my end point is "Trusting is better than worry."