A Universal Sin: WORRY!

“Be careful (full of care) for nothing.” It is possible for the legitimate concerns of life, like in Martha’s case, where an over-concern by over-emphasizing, to become an almost paralyzing anxiety.  Worry holds one like a vice so that you can hardly move or think of anything other than the problem before you. A problem which, more often than not, was created by us. We’re good at turning simple molehills into mountains.

Worry is a universal sin; there is none among Adam’s race it has not touched. Some more severely than others, but all experience it to some degree. If the devil cannot make our lives fruitless by tempting us to worldly debauchery, then he will get us by debilitating worries (Matt.13:22). “The Liar” will tell us our worrying is simply a hereditary habit of weakness and not sin. But Jesus tells us it is what the pagans do, and that we are not to emulate the heathen in their wicked distrust of God.

We cannot trust and worry at the same time. We’re told in scripture that sweet and bitter water does not flow from the same fountain. And so it is with trust and worry. These two cannot sleep in the same bed. They are not strange bedfellows; they are not bedfellows at all. Once trust gets into bed, he kicks worry out.