WORRY AND WORSHIP
Why worry? What can worry do?
It never keeps a trouble from overtaking you.
It gives you indigestion and woeful sleep at night,
And fills with gloom the passing days, however fair and bright.
It puts a frown upon your face and a sharpness in your tone;
You’re unfit to live with others and unfit to live alone.
The word worry is from an Anglo-Saxon word which means harm and is another word for wolf. It is something harmful that bites and tears at us, very much as a wolf would do when it catches a sheep. There are times, no doubt, when we must feel anxious because of harm suffered or if harm is anticipated by ourselves or others.
There is nothing wrong with this because it rouses in us a need for action that results in proper care of ourselves and our families. It can, however, have the opposite effect because it can paralyse normal thought-processes rendering us helpless and unfit to react properly to certain circumstances. It also distracts our judgments and obscures our vision.
Putting our thoughts, feelings and opinions into proper perspective, we must learn to trust God every day we are alive.
To give God the service of the body and not the soul – is Hypocrisy.
To give God the service of the soul and not of the body – is Sacrilege.
To give God neither – is Atheism.
To give God both – is Worship.
Why worry about things we don’t have,
Things that we’re unable to get.
Is not life more than earthly treasures?
And our faith more than mounting debt?
God has given us something more precious,
Of more value than priceless stone.
Nothing that the world can produce
Compares to worshipping at His throne.
We can’t take earthly treasures with us.
What we have now, will remain.
So why struggle so hard to possess
What is temporal and subject to change.
The kingdom of God is what matters,
And the souls left to die alone,
The lost and the lonely living in despair,
Those that have no place to call home.
Just look around at the hopelessness,
The state our society is in,
A world untouched by God’s generous love,
Drowning in the darkness of sin.
It gives us something to focus on,
As we open our eyes and see.
For God is screaming out for the lost,
With tears saying, Come unto Me!
And we, His messengers, must go to them
And show them His love and grace.
For nothing will ever change in our world
If we don’t put action to our faith.
M.S. Lowndes