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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