Fear And Worry

Fear is a poor chisel to carve out tommorrow.Worry is simply the triumph of fear over faith.There's a story that is told about a woman who was standind on a street corner crying profusely.A man came to her and asked why she was weeping.The lady shook her head nd replied:"I was just thinking that someday i would get married.We would later have a beautiful baby girl.Then oneday this child and i would go for a walk along the street,come to this corner,and my darling daughter would run into the street,get hit by a car,and die."
Now that sounds like a pretty ridiculous situation-for a grown woman to be weepng her eyes out because of something that would probably never happen.Yet is't this the way we respond whenwhen we worry? We Take a situation or event which might never exist and build it up all out of proportion in our mind.There is an old swedish proverb that says"worry gives a small thing a big shadow." Worry is simply the misuse of God's creative imagination which he has placed within each of us.When fear rises in our mind,we should learn to expect the opposite in our life.
The word "worry" itself is derived from an anglosaxon trm meaning"to strangle" or "to choke off".There is no question that worry and fear in the mind does choke off the creative flow from above.Don't worry and don't fear .Instead,take your fear and worry to the lord,casting all your care upon him;for he careth for you
(1 pet.5:7).



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