Worrying Is A Sin
These
past few months my world has been turned upside down in ways I cannot fathom. I
am a creature of habit, everything has a place, and every task is a routine
everyday. I write down everything down to the very last detail so I won’t
forget. For the past almost 10 years I only have one employer not by choice but
because I was terrified with change, but God has a different plan. I took a job
from a respectable and known employer in cable industry, good benefits and
higher paying job. Little did I know I was not meant to stay, the company didn’t
train people and only give you the bare minimum of information to perform the
job. That being said I left and I am now jobless. Although I have tons of job offers
probably more than a jobless person could hope for, I am still left at a lost. God
showed me his plan, his plan for me not to get comfortable. I ventured out of
my comfort zone and take a turn on my career path, from a customer service desk
job to 8 hours a day on your feet job.
Terrified
and confuse, I will have to make a decision tomorrow between 2 competitive
companies that offered me a job. Before today I was very anxious and worried
about what life will bring me. Kept on looking back and checking the what ifs,
but God spoke to me. He said “why do you worry about tomorrow, am I not capable
of taking care of you? Have you ever in your life lack of anything you need? Do
not worry about tomorrow, I got it I have a plan”. This struck me hard; I
remember what a wise pastor said “the most committed sin in the Bible is
worrying”
True
enough, I am limiting God’s control in my life. I have doubts on His plans, I
am not trusting God with my future because I keep trying to fix things myself.
I get anxious because I want to control everything and when I can’t, panic sets
in.
After
praying I realize I need to let God be God. Do my part then sit back and watch
everything unfold before my eyes. Go where He leads me. These verses helped me
so much. This is the time in my life where I needed Him the most, I knew the
answer yet I kept on forgetting…
Luke
12:6-7
6 Are not five sparrows sold
for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are
all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Matthew
6:25-34
Do Not Worry
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 than food, and the body
more than clothes? 26 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? 27 Can
any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And
why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do
not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you
that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If
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—you of
little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’
or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For
the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore
do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has
enough trouble of its own.
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