You Don’t Have to Worry

17 Unless the Lord had helped me,
    I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.
18 I cried out, “I am slipping!”
    but your unfailing love, O Lord, supported me.
19 When doubts filled my mind,
    your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer.  (Psalm 94:17-19)

I would say that many of us are intimate with worry. It seems to me that it has become a tight clinging tax for modern living. When people ask how we are, why is our standard answer always “busy”? A busy lifestyle and an anxious heart are interconnected. Would it not be a surprise then that the enemy uses our bursting schedules as a mode to get us to worship something else entirely? To many, worry is the altar at which they worship.

Recently it became clear to me that I spend more time in worry than I do in worship. Can you relate to this? I was drowning the peace of God with the worries of this world and the result was/is chaos. The soul drifts when it is not anchored in the mind of Christ. When we fill our minds with the doubts and troubles of this life, there is no mystery to why our faith falters. Anxiety and a thriving faith are competitors who can never occupy the same space.

One of them has to go.

Today, make it worry. You don’t have to live like the walls of your life are caving in. Jesus is calling with a whisper of grace in the shadows of your mind. “There is a better way, trust me”. 

Lord, thank you for freeing us from worry. Thank you that you provide a better way.