"Don't Fret..."

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Philippians 4:6

This devotional is yet another way that God has spoken to me concerning my tendency toward anxious thoughts.  We are to take NO thought, no anxious thought...

(Taken from "Daily Streams" Devotional)

Not a few Christians live in a state of unbroken anxiety, and others fret and fume terribly.  To be perfectly at peace amid the hurly-burly of daily life is a secret worth knowing.  What is the use of worrying?  It never made anybody strong; never helped anybody to do God's will; never made a way of escape for anyone out of perplexity.  Worry spoils lives which would otherwise be useful and beautiful.  Restlessness, anxiety, and care are absolutely forbidden by our Lord, who said: "Take no thought," that is, no anxious thought, "saying what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed?"  He does not mean that we are not to take forethought and that our life is to be without plan or method; but that we are not to worry about these things.  People know you live in the realm of anxious care by the lines on your face, the tones of your voice, the minor key in your life, and the lack of joy in your spirit.  Scale the heights of a life abandoned to God, then you will look down on the clouds beneath your feet.

- Rev. Darlow Sargeant