What, me worry?

From The Mountaintop to the Valley

What, me worry?

The other day a colleague said “I don’t think you worry about very much.” And I guess I really don’t. It seems that if you don’t have the ability to control the outcome of a situation there’s no point in worrying. And if you DO have control, you’re better off doing something about it! With that in mind, I can’t possibly add anything on this subject beyond what Jesus says in this passage from the Gospel of Matthew:

"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 important than food, and the body more important 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 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, O you of little faith? …….. seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Brian

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