Worry

In my musings about life, I have found myself worrying. You ask, “how could someone so good looking worry??? and about what ?” Well, I’ll tell you, its the little things of life, you know, will my children grow up to love the Lord? Will they find and marry a Godly person? Does my wife think I am a good husband? Is the Church going the direction the Lord wants? Is Jeff Hubbard gonna drive me nuts before my time? you know, every day stuff, then one day I ran across this story:

In 480 B.C. the outmanned army of Sparta’s King Leonidas held off the Persian troops of Xerxes by fighting them one at a time as they came through a narrow mountain pass, you may have seen the movie “300?” Commenting on this strategy, C.H. Spurgeon said, “Suppose Leonidas and his handful of men had gone out into the wide-open plain and attacked the Persians–why, they would have died at once, even though they might have fought like lions.” Spurgeon continued by saying that Christians stand in the narrow pass of today. If they choose to battle every difficulty at once, they’re sure to suffer defeat. But if they trust God and take their troubles one by one, they will find that their strength is sufficient.

Hmmmm… how many times have I preached on “eating the elephant” you know, how do you do it? The same way you eat a pop-tart, one mouthful at a time. It’s that time and space when we start worrying about the things that God controls and focusing on outcomes that have not yet been realized… here is what I discovered:

An average person’s worry is focused on :

40% — things that will never happen

30% — things about the past, that can’t be changed

12% — about criticism by others, mostly untrue

10% — about health, which gets worse with stress!

8% — about real problems that will be faced

Let’s decide today to let God be God. Trusting Him means we let Him handle the worries and we handle the work of the harvest. Let’s get busy doing the right things and leave the rest to the Father, See ya Sunday! PT