Do not worry

"Do not worry about your life..." Matthew 6:25

"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?" Matthew 6:27

The other day I was reading Matthew 6:25 and I noticed something I had never paid attention to before. Usually I would read through the whole scripture, 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. I have probably read this scripture 50 times and had never really focused on the begining of the scripture, do not worry aobut your life.

Do you know how many hours, days even months I have spent worrying about my life? If you put all the times I have spent worrying about who I would marry, when I would marry, how many children I would have, would I have children, is this the right relationship, I'm sure it would amount to a very very long time. And really what have I added to my life by worrying about all that. How much time have I wasted?

When I read that scripture, do not worry about your life I was literally set free in my mind from a whole lot of worry. No longer do I worry about what the future holds. No more do I worry and fuss about not being married. I just trust. And live day by day.

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it's own." Matthew 6:34

I don't need to worry about even tomorrow, let alone worry about the next few years.

When we walk around and are wrapped up in our own little world, caught up in our thoughts, worrying about stuff we can't control we miss out on the here and now. You come in contact with people all day long, at work, at the grocery store, at the gym, in your home and yet how many times have we walked past these people who God maybe wanted us to notice, to smile at, to speak to but we were too caught up in our own mind, worrying. I'm so guilty of this, my mind is usually going a hundred miles an hour, in a million different directions that I have gone to the store, grocery shopped for about an hour and can't tell you one person that I actually looked at, noticed, or even smiled at. And that's not okay.

All worrying really is is not trusting God. By me worrying about when I will get married, it is literally telling God, I don't trust you to bring me and my husband together. I don't trust you that you know what you're doing. I don't trust that you will bring this to pass. When that is nothing more than a lie. God you are in control of my life, You do know what you're doing, You do know the desires of my heart because You placed them there, and You will bring it to pass at the right time.

I no longer worry about my life. It is Yours God, do with it as you wish, I trust you. I know that your word says that you have good plans for me, not plans to harm me. Your word also says that it is not good for man to be alone, you will make a helper suitable for him. I am that helper. So there is nothing to worry about.

God, please open my eyes and open my heart to see those around me that You want me to notice. Use me, that I would be an effective tool in Your hand to reach out to those who need You.

You have called us to be a light in the darkness, not to be clouded in our minds and too preoccupied to be that light.

Thank you Jesus, for revealing Your truth to me, for showing me the error of my ways, for setting me free. I love you!

Michelle Nicole.