Worry

Do you know some things that the bible says about worry?

Matthew 6:25-26
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Matthew 6:34
34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Proverbs 24:19-20
19 Do not fret because of evil men

or be envious of the wicked,

20 for the evil man has no future hope,
and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

I like the one in Proverbs -- I don't have to get back at anyone evil -- he has no future hope anyway!

However, I do tend to worry too much! I give my worries to God and then I TAKE them back again. Do I seriously think that God can't handle them? Do I think that He is taking too long to handle them? Do I really think I can handle them better????? No, no (ok sometimes I don't like waiting on HIS perfect timing), and emphatically no!

I don't know what is wrong with me sometimes -- do I enjoy worrying? I don't think so! But I do need to remember to give my worries to God and leave them with him!

Lord, Help me to replace worry with joy in my life.