What Me Worry?

What are you worried about? Losing your job? The drop in your 401k? The squealing noise coming from your car brakes? How's your health? Take a minute and write them down. All of them.

Proverbs 22:3 says A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away. You should be concerned about the squealing brakes. You should watch your company's financial situation. Carefully, thoughtfully watch for danger. And take refuge.

Worry is an emotional obsession about things that might happen. When you worry, every thought rests on the target of that worry. You simply cannot put it out of your mind. Even worse - you really don't know if it will happen. The thought that it might triggers worry.

Worry crowds out everything else. It's a distraction. You cannot think of anything beyond that problem. Worry turns your mind inward. And it blots out the world around you. It locks you in a vault with no windows. Nothing else matters. Worry constantly screams for your attention.

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? 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? - Matthew 6:25-27

Worry is fear. What are you afraid of?