To Worry or Not to Worry

There are days when you look at your budget and see there is no reasonable way to balance it. The glaring red figures stare back at you – clear, undeniable. Half of you wonders how you are going to meet your obligations; how those essential cuts are even possible. The other half knows that God has always made a way before, against all odds, all reason, all logic. So then, the two halves war with one another – to worry or not to worry. To despair or to trust.

If you turn to God’s word, the answer is clear, like those red budget digits –

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 than food, and the body more than clothes? Look 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? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6: 25-34.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
Proverbs 3:5

Even though your first inclination is to worry and then despair, fight it. God will make a way. I’m not saying go on a spending spree and God will pay the bill. I’m saying, you do what you have to do and trust that God will bring you through it on an amazing, unforeseen path.