Don’t Worry So Much!

Steven Goad

We are living in an age of apprehension.  Society has anxieties that would have dumbfounded the ancients.  Nevertheless, we somehow manage to live beyond three score and ten.  Has medical technology merely lengthen the days in which we may worry?

Jesus long ago said, “Take therefore no thought (be not therefore anxious, R.V.) for the morrow:  for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself” (Matt. 6:34).  In spite of this clear instruction, we become so engrossed with vocations, avocations, recreations, politics, and infinitum, that we often forget that God who clothes the fields and cares for the sparrows will surely care for His offspring.  Paul later restated the sentiments of Christ in these words: “Be careful (anxious NKJV) for nothing…” (Phil. 4:6).

Are you so troubled with the petty cares of this life, as monumental as they often seem, that you forget with whom your true allegiance should be?  Earl Riney wrote what I believe the attitude of a zealous disciple should be:  “Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy at night.”  Perhaps we would have little time to worry if we were as Jesus, about our Father’s business.