Don't Worry! Instead, Hurry to God's Joyful Word!

            Have you had your Joy Juice today?  Don’t worry…there’s plenty to share any time of the day or night.

            Are you too busy?  I’m not just talking about with chores and tasks and the responsibilities of life in general.  The question I’d like for us to consider today….are we too busy WORRYING about things that we have no control over?  Are we too busy being anxious about things that might not even happen?  Are we too stressed to realize how blessed we really are?

            The Bible says a heap about worrying.  One of the familiar passages is found in Matthew 6 where Jesus, himself, is teaching about worry.  He said:

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?

            Instead of worry….we should hurry to the Word of God and read passages that will strengthen and build us up.  Rather than stressing, let’s see the blessings that are ours.

 As Paul wrote in Philippians 4:6: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

            Let’s not EVER be too busy worrying to give thanks to God for all of our blessings of JOY!