What do you worry about? Is it life’s necessities: food, clothing, shelter? Is it money? Is it personal safety? Is it personal attractiveness? Most of us worry about one thing or another. Walter Kelly once said, "Worry is faith in the negative, trust in the unpleasant, assurance of disaster and belief in defeat...worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles. A dense fog that covers a seven-city-block area one hundred feet deep is composed of less than one glass of water divided into sixty thousand million drops. Not much is there but it can cripple an entire city. When I don't have anything to worry about, I begin to worry about that."

The vast majority of what we worry about never occurs nor could be changed. Jesus said, "Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature" (Matthew 6:27, NKJV)? Some have formulated a worry table which presents the following information. An average person's anxiety is focused upon: 40% on things that will never happen, 35% on things which can't be changed; 15% on things which turn out better than expect with little or no credit to ourselves, 8% on petty and useless things, and 2% on legitimate concerns. Thus, only one out of fifty of the things we worry about will be problems we must deal with. We worry about anthrax, terrorist attacks, plane crashes, which - for the great majority of us - will never happen.

The Bible teaches that worry is not to be a part of the child of God’s life. In Matthew 6:25, Jesus said, "...do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink...." Literally He was saying, "Stop worrying!" In verse 31 He said, "Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’...." Here Jesus was saying, "Don’t start worrying!" So we are not to start worrying and - if we already have - we are to stop. The apostle Paul wrote, "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:6-7 NKJV). There is no care in this life that you cannot lay at the feet of our heavenly Father knowing with full assurance that He will respond with your best interests in mind "for He careth for you" (1 Peter 5:7).