Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Now that’s the question of the century. The obvious answer is “Well, no, Lord.” It sounds so simple then. If we can’t add an
hour to our life by worrying, why do we worry?
There’s a song with lyrics that I love, some of which state,
“Our lives are in your hands. Oh Lord,
we want them to be there. Our hopes and
dreams and plans, we trust entirely to your care.” And therein lies the
problem. We don’t trust him to care
enough about us to fulfill that which we hope for, dream about and plan
towards.
When I have a friend who loses a husband, or a child, or
when I see a child lose a parent, I automatically think, “How can they make
it?” and “Why, Lord?” And then comes the
thought, “What if that happened to me?”
No amount of worry does us any good. Worrying doesn’t add to our life, but it sure
can subtract. Countless hours are
wasted, sleep is lost, and hearts are stressed, when we worry.
The only thing that CAN add to our life is trusting our
lives into His care. It’s once again
changing our focus from us to Him.
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