Wasted Time

This past Sunday I had the opportunity to preach a sermon that I entitled, "Worry, Worry, Worry, Worry...and Worry". As you can tell by the sermon is was about worry! When I woke up on Sunday I really didn't know what I was preaching. I had a couple of sermons that I pretty much had together, but I just didn't feel right about preaching either of them. As I look at both sermons on Sunday morning at about 5:45am I said to myself, "I can't do either of these." This isn't it. So I started talking to the Lord. I was worried not about the Sermon when I woke up but, it was Youth Sunday so I needed to get everyone there t-shirts in time, the youth band was playing..I was worried the old people wouldn't like the loudness, I had to get all the ushers together and at first didn't have enough, and it was a morning full of worry. Than I didn't know what I was gonna speak. I turned to Matthew chapter 6 and it talked about worry. I read it and thought to myself there is no need to worry about all of this. The Lord has my back and He will make sure its all in order. I started to think about how in our lives we tend to worry about so much, and thru my thinking a sermon was birthed and I preached on worry.

As apart of my sermon and while I was studying and reading some footnotes in my study bible it talked about the difference in planning vs. worrying. You know how we tend to plan out the next day or try to plan out our future, which sometimes or most times leads us into worrying about everything going as planned...well in the note it says, Planning is time well spent, but worrying is time wasted. I loved that line. We waste time worrying about things that God has under control. We worry ourselves sick, and sometimes because we are worried sick, we make other people worried sick about us. God is in control. He is the provider of everything we need and if we think we need it now, kind of like the JG Wentworth commercial, "Its my money and I NEED IT NOW!" If we truly needed at that very moment I know by faith that God would provide. But too often we leave the faith out of it, don't want it to happen in God's timing and we shout, I NEED IT NOW, and than we worry, worry, worry because it hasn't come yet. We need to learn to trust in the Lord and to not worry. One of the most well known couple verses int he Bible, Proverbs 3:5&6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight."

Its time to stop worrying about so much and place it in God's hands, because if we don't we will worry ourselves so much that we will miss opportunities to minister and build God's kingdom. Have a blessed day everyone, and Remember, "don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (matt. 6:34)