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 As
a college student, I have so many choices to make and I am worried
about my making the wrong decisions. Sometimes my anxious thought
keep me up all night. Do you have any advice?
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 One
of the commands that we as Christians often overlook is the command
not to worry. It is as if we know all about this command and yet we
simply ignore it. Ironically it is the older, more "mature",
person who worries about all sorts of things. Maybe some of you are
staying up nights asking a bunch of "what if" questions.
"What if I get fired? What if I don't get married? What if I
get sick?"
Jesus repeatedly tells his disciples
not to worry (Matthew 6:25-34). In this one passage, the command
is mentioned three times. You might be asking, "Why should
I not worry? Well, there are three great reasons given in this passage.
Christians should not worry
because…
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1.
God command us not to. This should be all the motivation one
needs. The command "do not worry" in the original
language is in the imperative. This means this was not a mere
suggestion or a soft request. Jesus was emphatic about this
command.
2.Worrying
accomplishes absolutely nothing. Jesus asks a rhetorical question
in 6:27 "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour
to his life?" The answer is obvious. Nobody. The word
for "single hour" is cubit which literally is a
small unit of measurement. Jesus was saying "you can't
add even the smallest unit to your life."
There was a study done on what people worry about and here
are the results.
40% -- things that will
never happen.
30% --things about the past that can't be changed
12% -- things about criticism by others, mostly untrue
10% -- about health, which gets worse with stress
8% -- about real problems that will be faced
3.God
values his children more than anything on earth. I think many
forget how much God loves and cares for his own. Jesus points
out the birds of the air (v. 26) and God's provision for them.
He then asks another rhetorical question in v. 26. "Are
you not much more valuable than they?" If the birds do
not worry, God's children have nothing be concerned about.
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I hope you will put your trust in God and let
go of your worries. It was George Muller who said it so well, "The
beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true
faith is the end of anxiety." It's about time to put an end
to anxiety and put your trust in God.
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