Monday, January 2, 2012

Hello, My name is Mr. Worry.


I am a a perfectionist.  I'm a planner. I'm a worrier. I like things to go smoothly and go according to the plan.  If anything veers off from my original plan, my stress levels goes up rather quickly.  The fact that I still have no clue what I want to be "when I grow up" is constantly on my mind.  I want to be married someday, so finding a wife is usually at the back of my thoughts. I want to make so many plans about my future, but I have no clue what the future is even going to look like.
None of these are good.  None of these things accomplishes anything or makes me a better person.  So why do it?  Why do I always have to have a plan for everything?  As much as I hate cheesy Christian cliches, there's some truth in the saying "Let Go and Let God."
"By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going."
Hebrews 11:9
 If we try to plan out our lives perfectly, and then freak out when something changes, where's the faith in that?  Abraham had no clue what God was going to do in his life, yet by faith, he still went.  He didn't even know where he was going!
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? "
Matthew 6:25-27
I think Jesus sums it up pretty well here. Well, actually, he sums it up perfectly.  
As long as we are constantly seeking his guidance, God is going to take care of us and He's going to lead us where we need to go.
"But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."
Matthew 6:33

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