Worry...
WORRY
By Dan Kennedy
© 2012/2015
God created the world with the Word of His Power.
He caused all things to move, breathe and re-create
after their own kind.
He holds all things together by the Supernatural
Strength of His Being!
He knows the thoughts we think before we speak them.
He knew the finest detail of our Being
before we were even born...
He knows exactly when and where
we will take our final breath.
He delights in having formed us after His Image,
in His Likeness:
A creative, thinking, reasoning, loving and caring soul.
He knows every scar which has hurt us
physically, emotionally or spiritually.
He knows who will come into our lives,
How they will affect us,
and how we will respond to them.
He is aware of every event in the most mundane
or the busiest schedule.
He has full knowledge of the number of hairs on our head and
Comprehends every motive behind each action we take.
He knows exactly what we have experienced in life.
He knows those who will be influential in our life,
and the seemingly insurmountable
difficulties we will face.
He knows just what our unique gifts and abilities are -
precisely what we enjoy
and what we particularly dislike.
He knows our favorite color, our favorite sweater,
the things we think are secret
and the dreams we hope will come true.
He knows every sin to which we have ever yielded...
Every hateful word, every dark thought
– each nuance of impurity, deception, cover-up,
lie or resentment.
Nothing is hidden.
He also knows our joy of private and personal purity.
He knows each time we cry out to God.
He knows every occasion where
we have made, by His grace,
The Scripture our Resource,
Reliance on His Spirit our Empowerment,
and
His Name our Refuge.
He knows each gracious deed.
We think some things are hidden from God
- even the good,
but we cannot hide the smallest,
most insignificant gesture from His observation.
He knows, because, if He were not so close
to every living thing,
nothing could continue to live and breathe.
He holds all things together with the Word of His Dynamic Power!
Then we face a crisis, which He has allowed
to enter our lives…
A personal dilemma in our own private world.
When He does not immediately “fix” the situation
to our liking,
We begin to wonder if He really does know
what is going on.
We question, “Does God care? Is God there?”
He waits…looking for us to have a glimmer of faith
in His Almighty Hand.
We, though, in our “great wisdom,”
begin the process of worry.
We worry if our circumstance will ever get better.
We worry that God really does not see…
does not fully hear,
And that He may actually be powerless to do
anything to help us.
We really worry.
We loose sleep over the circumstance.
We cry over the issue.
We are angry with God for allowing the pain.
We begin to accuse Him of cruelty,
when we are affected in such an adverse
and suffering way.
Through our worry, we deny His awesome power.
We somehow expect our worrying
to magically fix the problem
because we worried…when in reality,
our anxiety has led us far from the only strength
with which we can be supernaturally provided.
Through worry’s systematic unbelief
and carnal permeation leaching into our soul,
the sweet fellowship, communion and faith
which we once had in our All-Powerful God
and Heavenly Father,
becomes tainted and skewed -
sometimes even bitterly broken.
Instead, through worrying we are led…
To the wilderness of doubt and despair,
To the prison-house of unbelief,
To the powerlessness of a faithless life!
We might even die in our worry because of
the paralyzing constriction of our anxiousness -
never experiencing
freedom from the bondage of cruel anxiety
through the blessed releasing power of our Risen Savior.
Christ Jesus instead, has meant every fiery trial to be...
The testing and growing of our faith,
A fuller reliance on His power,
A deep inexplicable leaning on and resting in
the unexplainable Comfort and Joy of His Presence.
Experiencing with Him part of the depth
of His own suffering.
God means all of this
to be a fuller revelation and deepening of
the genuineness of the priceless, glorious jewel
cultivated around the testing of our own faith!
This trial of our faith can be to us,
of much, much more value...
than having the wealth of an earthly mine full of the
“most precious purified gold!”
God’s reward for genuine fire-tested faith
will be without comparison...
and it will be eternal.
Worry, on the other hand, robs us of true joy,
Drives us to despair,
Afflicts us with anxiety and
Rewards us with nothing more than the bitterness of a
defeated spiritual relationship with God.
Let us turn away from worry and choose
not to solace ourselves with
its seducing powerlessness, bitterness,
separation and gall.
Instead, may we turn to the God of the Universe
and remember
God’s Promises and He Who always fulfills His Word!
May we remember His Faithfulness to us in the past!
May we recall His Love, His Provision,
and His Peace which passes understanding.
May we find freedom from worry
and a Refuge in the Strength and Comfort of
Our Redeemer, our Resource and our Refuge -
The Great “I AM”,
Who Is…our Eternal God!