About worry and false ideas…

Matthew 6:25 "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 important than food, and the body more important than clothes? (NIV)

If we do not have enough to worry about in the world, we can make up things to worry about. We can cook up false scenarios, we can devise false reasons, and we can imagine all manner of false things to add to our present worries. We can invent false ideas over which we have no control and then we can worry about the false ideas we invent. It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? However, we can and will do ridiculous things to make ourselves unhappy. To combat worry, we must live in and tell the truth. We must live in and tell the truth even when the truth hurts. False ideas or wrong ideas can feed our mind with darkness…a darkness we only imagine to be real. Don't you have enough to worry about without piling false ideas and untrue thoughts upon you heart and soul? To come to grips with what is really in your life then lift needless burdens from your heart and soul by stopping your worry habit over imagined darkness. If you look back, what you worried about in the past either did not come to pass or what you worried about did come to pass but you survived. Even if you do not survive, if you have accepted Christ, your ultimate future in Heaven is worry free.

Further thoughts about worry…

Your heart is like a container. Instead of placing dark and untrue imaginings upon your heart causing you to worry, place a vision of Christ.

Your mind is like a television. Choose the program you want to watch. Choose the program showing Christ being with you, helping you, and guiding you into the future.