I read something recently that really made me think. “The average child laughs about 400 times per day, while the average adult laughs only 15 times per day.” 

Wow! What happened to the other 385 laughs? Of course, as an adult we can understand what happened to them. We now have a mortgage, a job, bills, and stresses of marriage and family. 

Add to that the uncertainty and division in our society today. It all adds up to one thing – worry. Some people worry as if there was a reward for it. Someone said it this way: There are two things you should not worry about – what you can’t help and what you can help. Worrying about what you can’t help won’t help a thing. As for what you can help, don’t worry, do something about it.

When it comes to the Christian – there is not a single reason that we ought to worry. George Mueller said, “Worry is a mild form of atheism.” Yet, so many people today worry about all sorts of things. How can I make my payments? How can I repair that relationship? What does the future hold?

The answer to worry is faith. Faith and trust in a Living Lord who loves you and gave himself for you. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of faith is the end of anxiety. In fact, you could say, worry is faith in the negative.

Jesus attacks the folly of worry in Matthew 6:26-29 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

The average person’s worry is focused on the following: 40% on things that will never happen, 30% on things about the past that can’t be changed, 12% on criticism by others, that are mostly untrue, 10% about health (which gets worse with the stress worry), and 8% – about real problems that will actually be faced. Does this hit home anyone else? So, what about the 8%? Is it good to worry about that? No! Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it won’t take you anywhere. Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. We need to put our trust in a loving God. Fret not, because He loves you (John 13:1). Faint not because He holds you (Psalm 139:10). 

Fear not because He keeps you (Psalm 121:5). Replace your worry with trust today.