Worry is sin!
We are commanded not worry five times in just one chapter of Scripture: Matthew 6. Over and over, like the tolling of a bell in a country churchyard, ring out the words, “Take no thought…take no thought…take no thought.”
God’s own Son cups His hands to His mouth and shouts, “Don’t worry!”
Don’t worry about your finances. “My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus” Philippians 4:19.
Don’t worry about your weaknesses. “The Lord is the stronghold of my life” Psalm 27:1. “The people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits” Daniel 11:32.
Don’t worry about your frustrations. “You will keep him in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you” Isaiah 26:3.
Don’t worry about your enemies. “The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” 1 John 4:4.
To worry is to put your faith in fear. It is to trust in the unpleasant. It is to believe in defeat and despair. It is a stream of doubt that surges through the mind, drowning optimism, hope and faith.
An aviator was making a roundtheworld trip. On one leg of his journey he heard a noise in the plane—it sounded like the gnawing of a rat. He was two hours from the nearest landing field. Not knowing what delicate instruments might be destroyed by the rat’s sharp teeth, he began to worry.
Then he remembered that a rat is not made for the heights. It is made to live in dark holes in the ground. He nosed the plane higher and higher until the gnawing stopped. Two hours later when he landed, there in the cockpit lay a dead rat.
Worry is a rat. It cannot live in “the secret places of the Most High” Psalm 91:1. It cannot breathe in the atmosphere of confidence and faith.
If your life has been thrown off course by worry, climb higher. Come into the presence of the living God. Feel His peace, His power, His love — And know that worry must die in His presence.
Source: Being Happy in an Unhappy World
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