Worry
Worry occurs when one's eye remains focused upon a seemingly difficult
problem, some situation or troubling circumstance. And it grows. It feeds upon
worry. The more we stare upon it, the bigger it becomes. Worry is the means
in which we are able to make a "mountain out of a molehill." What do we think
anyway? "If I worry constantly and hard enough, and long enough - may be it
will just disappear!" "If I stay awake all night and continue to nurse my worry
with the milk of human despair - surely it will pass by morning." But no. It is
greater than I am; I am eaten up, consumed by it. It shall surely devour me.
"For verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you" Matt 17:20. Young David faced a mountain of a man. "David! You're no match for that giant!" "No, the giant is no match for Him that sitteth upon the circle of the earth! Why, the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers - and that includes Goliath!" David's faith may have been as a grain of mustard seed, but it's object was the Lord of glory! David's trust was not in the stone he carried but in the Rock of Ages! The slaying of the giant was a greater miracle than we thought! David could not even see Goliath - the Son was in his eyes!
O soul are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There's light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free!
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face;
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
