"For your heavenly Father knows what you need... But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day day is its own trouble."
- Matthew 6:32-34
I've always translated my "empathy" to either care and concern or fear and anxiety. Fear is right when it is reverence toward God cause He's holy and care is good when showing concern for others. But worry.... Worry is always wrong. I realized how much it paralyzes active faith in my life.
When I assume responsibility for things I was never intended to handle. Worry divides my mind between useful and hurtful thinking. It doesn't change anything except draw my focus away from God...
It's a choking, harmful emotion that saps my energy and elevates human strength and ingenuity above God's strength and His purposeful plan.
I realize that I worry most when there's change, lack of understanding and lack of control over my life. It's the opposite of faith, suggesting that I can't trust God.. Yes, worry paralyzes our faith that it causes us to forget the many times God came thru for us and taught us lessons which brought us to where we stand now.
It causes our fears to crowd out our faith.
God is calling us to Himself.. To trust Him always, that though we do not know what will happen tomorrow, we know who holds it.... and we know who holds us.
"...Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? What help can worrying bring?"
--Matthew 6:26-27
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