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But I have good reason to worry...

Matthew 6 v 25-31:  '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? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

The Word of God very clearly tells us that we are not to worry about anything.  It is so easy for us to say to the people around us that we are fine, and nothing is bothering us, meanwhile deep down inside we are worried about (or even consumed by) the problems at work or problems at home. (It could be anything from finances to family/work colleagues etc. that has you worried.). 

God doesn't want us to be concerned about anything.  His desire for us to trust Him and to draw our strength from Him.  If God is able to take care of the birds of the air or the grass of the fields, then surely He is more than able to meet our every need, whether it be at work or at home.  Let us take the Word of God literally and stand on it believing that God knows all our worries and that He wants us to live a life that it worry-free.