OUR CONCERN, THE WORRIES

Post date: May 15, 2012 6:11:07 AM

Everyone has a concern about some things in life at one point or the other. Having concerns are human and very normal but our reactions to concerns is the problem human being have to look into. Reactions vary from person to person and they test to know and to prove who you are and what you are. The varying negative effects and reactions to concern is another source for greater concern to many people.

One of the immediate results to any form of situations that causes concern is worry, and this does make the situation look worst most of the times. Whenever and wherever there is a concern for anything in life, locking behind those concerns are worries of various kinds and locking behind worries are many unnumbered immediate or long term problems.

When you allow worries to take its root in you for too long, it degenerates into so many things that might affect everything about you forever. Worries has the power to adversely affect everything about you, your health, dreams, desires, job, education, vision, marriage, finance,  relationships, and your Christian life generally.

Let me enumerate some places where worries reigns in the lives of people; these places are where the devil had severely penetrated and believers should be aware. Wherever there is envy, fear, jealousy, gossip, sickness, misunderstanding, delays, denials, frustrations, lacks, failures, any form of hindrance, suspicion and lost, you will find worries there. Comparing them with the scriptures, you will notice they are the works of the flesh. “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like” Galatians 5:19-21

The desires of the flesh are always to kill, hinder and render the spirit weak and ineffective, and ones the spirit is affected negatively the devil takes control of such life. Where the flesh reigns supreme in every situation, the spirit will be dormant and the person will be dominated with all forms of known and unknown worries.  

The concerns for self, family, finance, work, health, lack, weather, marriage, car, position, children, and security are not as severe as the worries they generate in you. The results of worries are far reaching than the situation that caused them in the first place. Worry has succeeded in destroying more people than the things they were concerned about initially. Human being are concerned about all things and worried by all things.    

The solution to worries does not lie in our physical strength or consolation by men, but only by a determined working faith in Christ Jesus. Meditate on this; “Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you. Stay alert; watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your brothers and sisters all over the world are going through the same kind of suffering you are. In His kindness God called you to share in His eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, He will restore, support, and strengthen you, and He will place you on a firm foundation.” 1 Peter 5:7-10(NLT)

This is the victory over worries, turn all those things that concern you to God by faith and stop worrying over them, trust in God’s ability to deliver you, and in His absolute care to provide all you will ever need. He will not only deliver you from worries, He will restore, strengthen support, and place you on a solid foundation the rest of your life thereafter. By your faith in His name you can overcome those things that concern you and be free from worries. Christ is willing to take care of all of them for you.