Worry - Finding Peace Sample

The Process Wouldn’t it be nice if all we had to do was think happy thoughts and all of our worries would vanish? Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. If we want to live a life not orchestrated by worry, we have to learn how to pass along all of our concerns and difficulties to God. God cares about you and your future. He will never leave you. It’s not as simple as thinking happy thoughts, but it is possible to let go of our concerns and difficulties. Letting go is a process. We have to begin to understand this. Worry doesn’t go away just because we want it to. It goes away through a process that takes active involvement. Part of the process is learning to take things at face value. When events unfold or God gives us a peek into our future we have a tendency to add to it or to take away from it. If God shows us that we are to get a new job and as we think of the possibilities we end up adding that it’s going to be a six-figure job. Maybe, God calls us to be a teacher at a school with a bad reputation and we get scared and proceed on to work at a school we are comfortable at, taking away the bad reputation part. In the Old Testament God warned the Israelites that they were not to add to or take away from His law. He knew what they needed and told them to take the laws at face value, not adding to or taking away. This is a great example for us when God speaks to us we are to take it at face value. When we start focusing on the end results and the what-if’s it scares us and can even consume us. It can make our motives impure, causing us to run after the promise instead of the Promisor. Instead of focusing on the end results, we have to learn how to take one step at a time. When we focus on the next step we focus on God and what He is speaking and wanting instead of what we are wanting. With each step we trust that He is in control and that His strength is enough to get us through whatever lies ahead. He will show us the next step, and then the next, and then the next. And that is how our trust in God grows. What is God telling you in life right now? To rest? To start a ministry? To change jobs? Walk one step at a time towards God’s direction, being careful not to add to or take away from what He has told you.