Overcoming Worry
Take some time and read the passage:
(Psalm 37).
Once we comprehend how worry undermines trust in our Father and how willing He is to remove it from us, we need to seek out ways we can cooperate with Him. There are some common sources of worry that we can avoid.
One thing we can do is learn not to pay attention to the wrong people. There are many purveyors of doom and gloom – we all can think of various sources of such negative thinking, and we can take steps to avoid them, whether they are neighbors or newscasts that plunge us into despair. We don?t have to listen to everything evil just because it is making a lot of noise.
Something else that we should avoid is laying up treasure on earth. The more we store up worldly goods, the more we are tempted to worry about what might happen to our possessions.
Either we are going to be overcome by the material, or we will be mastered by the spiritual. As Jesus put it, we will serve either God or mammon. To avoid serving the wrong master, we must deliberately choose to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness (verse 33). This means we must willingly pursue obedience and submission to God?s ways as He conforms us to the image of Christ.
This is the Christian way to overcome worry. Putting God?s interests first always results in our needs being met. He has promised that all these things will be added unto us. The more we put Him first, the less worry will have a foothold in our lives.
“Overcoming Worry” by Dr. Charles Stanley appeared in In Touch magazine, March 2004. Copyright ? IN TOUCH MINISTRIES. P.O. Box 7900, Atlanta, GA 30357. All rights reserved. www.intouch.org. Used with permission.
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