What Are You Worried About?

Hi this Steve and welcome back to another segment of Press On. This is called What are You Worried About?

 I often think how much easier it would be if I were a kid again...I mean just think, very few responsibilities to worry about. Care free...right! 

Wrong...I remember in elementary school standing next to my teacher when another teacher came up and asked “is he a worrier” and she responded “oh my gosh yes.”

The apostle Paul in a letter to the church in Phillipi writes this about worry in chapter 4. Philippians 4:6

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

  I’m often confounded by this scripture and even those who quote it to me. “The Bible says you shouldn’t worry.” Yeah sure that just fixed it. Worry or anxiety seems inescapable so why does Paul write: “Do not be anxious about anything”...

Let’s be clear...this isn’t a call to a care free life...it’s a trust and distraction issue. The Greek word for worry means "to divide, to separate." It represents a mental state or condition in which someone is occupied with or is dwelling upon something. The use of this word is negative because it conveys the idea of distraction in occupying the attention of the mind. 

Starting to get the picture? Let me put it this way...worry is allowing a negative and destructive thought often prompted by dark elements to live “rent free” in your head. Space in your head and your heart should not be up for grabs...its to be reserved for Christ. For years I have always gone back and read a very small publication called My Heart-Christ’s Home written by Robert Boyd Munger. It’s about inviting Christ to live in all the rooms of our heart (head). 

There’s much more to this story but for today think about this

 Ask yourself is worry occupying a space in your head and heart rent free that is reserved for the Lord? Start handing out eviction notices. 

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