The 3 Things you worry about....you may be surprised.

Ok...so let me make a really bold statement about you. You worry. I guess its not so bold, a recent study showed that 96% of Americans worry (the other 4% are in a comma). So we all worry. Its a basic human emotion that has been with us since the beginning of man. When God first created Adam and Eve they did not worry but as soon as they ate the infamous apple they began to worry. Adam knew God said not to eat the apple so he was afraid of what God might do or think...so He worried.

That's where it started. In Adam's moments of worry we learn that all worry stems from 3 primary areas:

1. Food - Adam ate and then worried what would happen due to what he ate. We worry about our cholesterol, pestisides and where will our next meal come from. Lets face it what concerns you more, having enough to eat or a place to live? We dont survive long without food. We worry about basic survival.

2. Fashion - Adam realized he was naked after he ate the apple and imediately covered himself making the first fashion statement. Because appearance makes the first, in most cases the only, impression we obsess over what we wear, what we look like, where we live, what we drive, and our gadgets and toys. Even our kids have become our fashion statements to society. We have become steeped in Human Impression Management. Human's are never impressed, at least not for long, so we find ways to worry about how to become more impressive with our fashionable things.

3. Future - in the end this is what really concerned Adam...What would God think and do when He finds out? For us everything we worry about concerns our future. If you are worried about past events...you are really worried how those past events will effect tomorrow or 5 minutes from now. Our worry never involves our current moment...its always future oriented. We allow worry about tomorrow to steal today's Joy and that will ultimatly send your spirit to bankrupcy court. Guess what 70% of all things we worry about never coem to pass.

Jesus understood what Adam did and what we do when we worry and I believe that why He said not to worry in Mathew 6. We gain nothing through worry...never has a problem been solved in human history due to worry. NEVER. Worry is like borrowing trouble from the future at high interest rates (80-85% of all claims at the Mayo Clinic are stress related). Biblically we are supposed to be lenders not borrowers.

So what do we do?...we have to learn: prayer makes things smaller and worry makes things bigger and if you say...'I cant pray about that its too small (not that is ever true) then its also too small to worry about.'

Let me leave you with this parabel (don't know teh author)

Death walked toward the city. A man stopped Death and asked, "What are you going to do? "I am going to kill 10 thousand people," said Death. The man immediately warned as many people as he could. The next day the man again met Death. "You said you were going to kill 10 thousand people, but 70 thousand people died yesterday." Death said, "I only killed 10 thousand people, worry and fear killed the others."

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