A lady I work with has a second job working for a company that sells bathroom products. Part of the job requires setting up displays and shelving products in the stores. One particular job – involving toilet paper – was not working out as planned. The worker became more and more frustrated. Complications kept coming up at this store that she finally called her supervisor. Her supervisor, realizing she was very upset, tried to calm her down with a few reassuring words: “Don’t worry! It’s just toilet paper.”

It’s human to Worry

We are faced every day with needs and troubling circumstances. It’s hard not to worry a little. Sometimes though, we can get so caught up in our circumstances, that we lose our perspective. The things we want and need, or the trials we are facing become so important (big), that we can’t see past them. We stop living our lives and jump into a rat race of worry, chasing things we may never get anyway. Even if we do get them, we are so miserable from trying so hard to get them, that we are not even able to enjoy them.

Matthew 6:25b

What does the Word say about Worry?

Matthew 6:25-34

26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

3 things to keep in mind that can help us keep worry to a minimum.

1. God knows what we need.

Matthew 6:32

2. God is able and wants to meet our needs.

Matthew 6:26,29

3. It doesn’t do any good to worry anyway.

Matthew 6:27

So what do we do instead of worry?

1. Pray – It does a lot more good than worry.

Philippians 4:6

2.Seek Him – HE will meet our needs, AND we will trade our worry for peace!

Matthew 6:33