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Overcoming Worry
Once we
comprehend how worry undermines trust in
our Father and how willing He is to remove
it from us, we need to seek out ways we
can cooperate with Him. There are some
common sources of worry that we can avoid.
One
thing we can do is learn not to pay
attention to the wrong people. There are
many purveyors of doom and gloom—we all
can think of various sources of such
negative thinking, and we can take steps
to avoid them, whether they are neighbors
or newscasts that plunge us into despair.
We don’t have to listen to everything evil
just because it is making a lot of noise.
Something else that we should avoid is
laying up treasure on earth. The more we
store up worldly goods, the more we are
tempted to worry about what might happen
to our possessions.
Either
we are going to be overcome by the
material, or we will be mastered by the
spiritual. As Jesus put it, we will serve
either God or mammon. To avoid serving the
wrong master, we must deliberately choose
to seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness. (verse 33) This means we
must willingly pursue obedience and
submission to God’s ways as He conforms us
to the image of Christ.
This is
the Christian way to overcome worry.
Putting God’s interests first always
results in our needs being met. He has
promised that all these things will be
added unto us. The more we put Him first,
the less worry will have a foothold in our
lives.
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