Saturday, January 23, 2010

Accidental Disrespect

There is no real benefit to worry.  Outcomes do not change because of more or less worry.  In fact, worry probably has more of a negative effect on issues.  It can cloud the real issue and cause wasted energy on "what-if's"and hypotheticals. 

Humans are probably the only thing on Earth that worries.  Can you imagine birds, pacing back and forth in their nests, fretting on whether or not they will find worms tomorrow, or if their baby birds will do good in bird school, or if they will be able to afford their nest addition.  Silly, right?  Now, you may say it is because the avian brain does not have the capacity for that.  I say, it is because human brains have too much capacity for that.     

"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? Look 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life" -Matthew 6:25-27

While it is often accidental, the outcome is the same.  Worrying is disrespectful to God.  It is trying to control our issues, assuming that we know best.

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