Worry
Worry is deceptive. It makes us believe that we can do something to control our life. It promises that we’ll be able to change our situation in some way.
However, worrying doesn’t change anything or help us control our life at all. It simply steals our joy and takes the focus away from how Yahweh our Heavenly Father is working in our life and places the focus on us and our inabilities instead —a very sorry thing to focus on.
I always chuckle when I think of the story of a lady who was talking to her pastor about worry. She basically said she found it helpful to worry because everything she worried about never came to be. She thought if she worried she could be confident it wouldn’t come to pass!
It’s silly, but isn’t that about right? The majority of the things we worry about don’t come to pass. Rarely do we happen to worry about the real thing we ought to worry about (if we’re going to worry at all, that is).
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and Elohim feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? (Luke 12:22-26)