Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Day 45 - Worry


Day 45 – I heard a statistic the other day about sleeping. How much do you think you sleep throughout the year understanding that you probably get a normal night's rest? It ends up being almost 1/3 of a year. Wow! I can't say that I get a ton of sleep and am currently working on earning my full 1/3 of the year.
I don't sit and obsess or worry but clearly my conscience is doing some of that. I really couldn't pinpoint what I think about in the middle of the night because I am trying to sleep and then all of the sudden I will awake.

It got me thinking about what I might possibly have anxiety about as this has been occurring for the last 7 or 8 months. Then I started to think about a friend of mine who worries about making ends meet every month. She stresses about it and about how she might not be faithful enough and that's why God isn't blessing her. I really don't see God that way at all. I don't think he punishes us because we aren't faithful enough. I think we will often go through trials so that we learn how much he really IS there for us and will come through in incredible ways that we never thought.

A few years ago, my husband started a business with a few guys. We had to tie our house into the collateral and there were some weeks that he didn't get a paycheck. I had quit my job to take a lesser one in order to be there more for my kids and therefore was making very little money. That truly was a faith tester during that time as I often wasn't sure we would make it through. However, we had prayed about it and knew that was the direction that my husband was supposed to take and God came through every time!
How often do we question or go ahead of God and miss out on the amazing blessings God has for us? If we just trust Him and let things transpire in His timing…we will see so much more especially if we are tuned into what He wants. I have been so incredibly blessed and don't want to miss out on a moment of what God has in store.

Matthew 6: 25 – 34 says:
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
 28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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