One of my favorite bible verses is Matthew 6:34 (NIV)
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
I love this verse because no matter who you are or what you are going through you just have to nod in agreement. It’s that crystal clear. There is no point in worrying today because there is so much more to come and our worry will only make things worse.
I used to be a top notch worrier.
I would worry about everything to the point that it would make me physically sick. Here’s the kicker though, the majority, if not everything I worried about were things which I had zero control over. I suppose that’s what worry is all about. Once I grasped the concept of Matthew 6:34 and used it with Psalms 55:22 (NIV), “Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken,” I was freed from my shackles of worry. I had awoken to the fact that God has got it under control. After all, He orchestrated it all.
Everything we have been through, everything we are going to go through and everything we will go through has got His hand on it. We need to let go and trust that God has our back. The only place we’ll find ourselves if we let worry consume us is in bed with a migraine and worst of all telling our Heavenly Father that we don’t trust Him or need Him.
If our Father has our whole heart and we ask Him to take on our burdens, He will. It really is that simple and there is true physical relief that comes from doing this. It feels as though you are taking a breath for the first time. A sense of calm and lightness will overcome you and right at that moment know that you have pleased your Father. He has waited on you to come to Him for so long.
God wants us to kick worry to the curb, give Him all of the burdens which cause us to worry and for us to know that He will get us through.
Matthew 11:28 (NIV) “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
He wouldn’t ask this of us if He couldn’t deliver. Trust in Him. Go to Him today.
ABOUT CANDACE MCQUAIN
Mother of four. Located in beautiful NC. Up until recently was a process writer for a large Aerospace company. God had other plans for my writing!...
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Bless you for this reminder I was in great need of it!
I guess God instructs us not to worry because he knows we will! Worry is a robber of time, energy, productivity, isn’t it? It adds nothing but maybe wrinkles and ulcers other ills.
I think mamas might struggle with this the most! So thanks for this encouragement :).
Just the reminder I needed. Thank you.
I am a family of “inherited worry”, the women in my family have passed this gene down from generation to generation. :) I spent a year of my life almost incapacitated with worry about something I couldn’t fix. Through much prayer and “choice”, because often we have to make a choice each day to put worry aside… God removed that worry from me.
Am I human..yes. Do I still worry..yes. Do I still worry occasionally about that same issue…yes. But God walks with me daily through that and reminds my spirit to rest in him. Thank you so much for His reminder again to me through your words!
I want to break the cycle of worry for my family! Have a blessed Sunday Candace!
Heather
Love this. We don’t need to worry about tomorrow, for sure. Plan and prepare, but not worry. Great post!
Bernice
10 things to do tonight to have a better tomorrow
Thank you for this. I needed the reminder…
yes… the sweet relief of fully trusting Him.
Trusting God with my sin of worry…. I have been learning this very thing and it is still a work in progress. Thank you for the reminder.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This post is exactly what I needed to see today. My little boy is going to kindergarten this year. he’s never been to preschool. He and his little brother spend every moment together. Have I taught him everything he needs to know? Will he get picked on? Will he hate it? My head and my heart have been racing and keeping me up at night and generally sucking the joy out of life for weeks. I’ve been hating even hearing anyone else talk about their school/preschool choices. this post really just centered me, grounded me. made me take a moment. Thank you for delivering His word just this way today. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I began yesterday worried to the point of illness. Then the day brought so much more that I could bear (a.k.a. the DMV on the last day of a short month)– especially when added to all that worry I was already carrying. At the end of the day, though, my husband and I talked and we turned it over.
Today feels so much better.
Thanks for the reminder & the verses.
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