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5 Reasons NOT to Worry

Posted: September 5, 2025 in Tough Times
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In my humble opinion, “Humans”, by far, are the best “worriers” on earth and I think this is true because our list of things to worry about seems to stretch into infinity.

  • We worry about our health; and if our doctor says we’re okay, we worry that maybe he/she missed something. 
  • We always worry about money because its money…and we think we can never have enough of it.
  • We also worry about whether our job will still be there tomorrow and that promotion we need so badly…
  • We worry about our children and if they will grow up to be good adults…

We worry, we worry, and then we worry some more.

Guys, the reality is that most of the things we worry about will never happen, but we still worry about them anyway. So here is my question for you today…

What does all that worry say about your faith? Do you trust God to take care of you, or is that just lip service?

For you, and for me, I put together a list of 5 reasons why we should not worry in our daily walks. These points are taken directly from the Bible and in Christ’s own words to remind us of what God told us to do when we become anxious. So I give you…5 reasons why we should NOT worry.

Worrying is Inconsistent 

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? Matthew 6:25

If we can trust Jesus to provide us with our very life, then why can’t we trust Him to provide for our daily needs? 

It’s easy to give God control in areas of our lives that aren’t too dangerous or where failure won’t be too great for us to fix…but isn’t that just lack of faith anyway? 

If we can trust and believe that He can handle the smaller things then there isn’t any reason not to believe He can’t handle EVERYTHING for us.

Worrying is Irrational 

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? Matthew 6:26

If our Lord cares for the birds, will He not also care for us, since we are more valuable than they are?

I get the fear guys feel when we are riding too close to lifes guardrail knowing that if we lose control, even for just a moment, we may lose all or a part of what we have. 

Answer…it is called faith for a reason. God places you into circumstances to find out what you will do when you are too close the edge. Will you crash or give up? Or will you TRUST HIM and let HIM provide for you?

Worry is ineffective

Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6:27

There are no such thing as worry points. We don’t become better men because we worry, we become worse. Even Christ asked the question whether we get better or add any time to our life if we worry? We do not…in fact, we will only make ourselves and the people around us, miserable.

Worrying is illogical  

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers 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—you of little faith? Matthew 6:28-30

If God dresses the lilies of the field even nicer than Solomon, can He not also clothe us? Trusting God means we trust Him to take care of us…period. We can’t both drive.

You can’t just trust Him some of the time and not the rest. Take your hands off of the wheel and let God steer your life and see where He takes you.

Worrying is irreligious – Matthew 6:31-32 

When we worry, we act like those who don’t know God.

When we worry, it’s like putting handcuffs on God. We say we believe but then don’t trust Him enough to guide us through a touch patch? Here is some blunt truth, what do we show unbelievers about following Christ when at the first point of adversity, we take the reins back from Him and say, “I can do a better job”? Plain and simple, we show them our LACK of Faith.

One final thought about worry before we end today. When Christ spoke about worry, He just didn’t say “don’t worry” and then He was finished…NO…He also told us How NOT to worry as well which for me is helpful. 

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 is its own trouble. Luke 6:33-34 

Honestly guys, that is all there is to this…seek HIM first, then trust Him, and watch Him work in your life. You will be amazed at what happens. Let me give you 2 more verses on trust:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.   (Proverbs 3:6-7 NKJV)

Until next time guys…

Though He Slay me, yet I will Hope in Him…

Posted: October 24, 2020 in Something to think about
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Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him; I will surely defend my ways to His face. Job 13:15

This is one of the most astounding declarations of faith about the goodness of God that was ever spoken. Whatever God allowed to happen to Job, whatever burden He laid upon Him, whatver pain he suffered, even if God should decide to “slay” him, Job ultimately believed that God would NOT fail him. Think about that.

He had complete and TOTAL reliance upon God. Contemplate the fact that it was NOT even a possibility to Job that God could fail him so therefore he never even considered it even though his so-called friends pressed him too.

I find his statement more exacerbating due to the timing of when he said it. He found himself right in the middle of the most agonizing experiences any human being would ever have to go through. He lost his family, his wealth, his land, his livestock, his house, and finally, his health…and none of this by his own hand.

If you were in Job’s circumstance, could you still have faith in someone that has deserted you? 

If God seemingly abandoned you and then you fell into the series of misfortunes like Job went through wouldn’t it be easy to just say, “to heck with this!” and give up and disown God? Why didn’t Job do that?

What kind of relationship did Job have with God that he not only had faith in Him but knew God’s very nature well enough to know that whatever, was happening to him, whatever this looked like visually, was NOT the God he was connected to and knew. I find that incredible.

Just consider with me for a moment the idea of having someone in your life that will not fail you, will not stop supporting or encouraging you, or will not walk away from you even at your ugliest moments.

When you have failed someone or yourself. When you are having real trouble just loving yourself…that is the low point I am referring to. That is the specific spot that when you reach it…is where Jesus meets you. Right when you feel the most alone possible. He is RIGHT there with you.

Job knew it because he had experienced something with God that he didn’t want to lose. That inner peace is simply the love of the savior towards you and me. Job believed that to his core and that faith gave him the strength to say, “though he slay me, yet I will hope in Him”.  Can you imagine being connected to Christ where you could say that AND believe it even during the worst of times? 

Can you imagine trusting Christ SO much that nothing in this world really mattered? Why? because this is all just “STUFF”…just things we leave behind. 

The only thing that matters is your journey on this Earth to get to Him, AND…who you touch along the way. Your wife, your family, your friends, and everyone else.

Guys, I encourage you today to build your faith during these extremely difficult times. Be prepared so that if the time ever came, walking away from God could NEVER be an option.

You would simply say, “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”, Joshua 24:15

Until next time Guys…

It takes Guts to say NO…

Posted: June 30, 2013 in Heaven Bound, Inspirational, Tough Times
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imagesHave you ever heard the expression “if you give him and inch he will take a mile”? I know we have all heard that one once or twice before. But why does it matter? Here is why…I want to talk briefly about that first inch that you give up, that you concede, that you compromise. You see, the expression “give him an inch” indicates from the very beginning that you gave in…or you gave up…something…that you thought maybe you had to, in order to improve the situation. What you did was compromise. Now, please don’t get me wrong here. Compromise in a relationship is crucial for it to last, Am I right? We do not agree with our spouse’s or our friends all the time. Have you ever “agreed to disagree” and hopefully still maintained the relationship? Good debate is healthy and promotes independent thinking and I think is the key to long-lasting friendships however compromise in other areas of our life is what I am focusing on today.

I am reading a new book by Dr. David Jeremiah called, The Writing on the Wall, and it talks about the prophet Daniel who while captive in Babylon for 70 years, Daniel did not compromise his God ever, no matter what his circumstances, even in the face of death. His consistency is astounding and frankly a model for all of us to follow. But Dr. Jeremiah makes a point here that I want to illustrate with you which is simply that it takes guts…real guts, to say no, even with God on your side. Daniel was resolute in his defiance in Babylon and for you and I, no matter where we are in life, we do not “have to bend the rules to be blessed of God. Success is NOT dependent upon our compromise”. Everywhere a compromise is worked out in the Bible…bad things happen…

From the very beginning, we see compromises;

  • Adam, who fell right in line with Eve’s sin by compromising and eating the forbidden fruit… Well, he lost Eden.
  • Sarah’s lack of faith in God caused her to compromise and send her husband Abraham in with Hagar, who gave birth to Ishmael. As a result, life in the Middle East will never be the same.
  • We all remember Esau who compromised his birthright because he was hungry.
  • King David, who was a man after Gods own heart, compromised Gods morality by sleeping with Bathsheba and then killing her husband Uriah. He lost his son…

The list goes on and on with Solomon, Judas and Ahab. All of them compromised something significant in their lives and it cost them. To think all they would have had to do was to just say NO…I am going to stand on what my God has promised me and take whatever comes my way.

I want to finish with a story Dr. Jeremiah shares in his book about an exchange in a high school class between some students and a godless professor.

In one of his lectures he said, “will all of you who believe the myths of the Bible please stand.” Several stood.

 Then he added, “now this semester I am going to free you from this religious Bible nonsense. I have read the Bible, and it is certainly written by a bunch of mixed up men.”

 One young Daniel stood up and said, “Sir, the Bible is God’s letter to Christians, and if you are confused it’s because you are reading someone else’s mail.”

Guys, I pray that all of us can stand firm and NOT compromise in the face of this kind (or worse) of adversity against your faith or yourself. I will tell you this, this life and its “adversity” will continue to get worse and you are going to be in circumstances where you will be asked to “give an inch”. What’s an inch you say? In our case as Christians, it is truly the difference between a life spent with God in Eternity or the alternative…Hell. It is that simple

You get to make that choice…

My advice, choose Daniel…no compromise…

Until next time Guys…