Worry Warts
Man has a long and lugubrious track record of failure. Ever since Adam obeyed the voice of his wife Eve, man has been on a steady downward trend that is swiftly headed for great disaster. If we look at the back of the book, it’s pretty easy to see how things end, which can either bring a lot of anxiety and worry or a sense of peace depending on how you handle it and whether you are one of Satan's kids, or one of God’s children. Our track record of failure brings us little comfort when it comes time to select another leader of the so-called free world. Every four years we get the joy of an extra helping of anxiety delivered by our media and politicians that pairs nicely with a glass of a 6,000-year-old bottle of apocalypse.
We are at a place in human history where men no longer seek after God, but instead seek after what they or some other man can do to save them and care for them. The government is god to these people, with the medical profession its healing right hand. Science will save us!
Anyone who has been to a doctor knows how untrue this is, yet people look at doctors as god almighty and doctors themselves seem to see themselves this way. The modern medical profession does two things extremely well, and it is, on the whole, entirely uninterested in things that might actually work.
The first is that they excel at keeping people sick, and they excel at prescribing expensive drugs to help them feel better while they are sick. The second is that they excel at cutting people open for whatever reason they can find to do so, and it is quite often unnecessary. We see people in our office every single day who have had botched surgeries, who are prescribed dozens of drugs, one for the illness and eleven for the side-effects, and who have been completely failed by the medical system, because as a colleague of mine likes to say, western medicine has no definition of health.
What I do not mean to say is that there are no good doctors, because there are some rather good doctors out there. A good doctor is rare, but they do exist. What I am saying is that the medical system is bad and corrupt, and doctors of the system are bad and corrupt as well. As a group, they are rather a good thing to avoid, but as individuals they can be quite beneficial, if they recognize and serve God. The medical system does not do this, rather, they serve another god entirely.
The healing hand people seek after is quite puny and self-serving when we get right down to it, interested only in keeping a lifelong customer and making the most money out of you they can. Our food system is structured in such a way to facilitate life-long customers, and so is everything else in our world around us. This is not to say that there are not times medical help is necessary, but understanding the motives behind the men makes it easier to make a good choice.
Even when looking at just one aspect of our government, the mighty hand people look to for salvation, we see that it is nothing more than humanism, and it is not there for our benefit. Politicians are the same way. They get rich off of our labor and our backs and enslave us through taxes. Again, these are the entities that people look to to come and save them!
Millions of people in America are running around worried to death about the outcome of the next election, or will the government be ready for the next pandemic, or will the medical community be able to save their lives from whatever ailment might come upon them. They are worried sick about these things as though their salvation depends upon the men holding the offices in our medical community or the government. All these people, worried to death about the human saviors一what if we pick the wrong one?
Philippians 3:18-19 NKJV — For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.
What about us? We are God's people, so what about us? Where do we sit in this mad search for a human savior? Are we worried half to death about what tomorrow might bring?
Brethren, we are citizens of a foreign country and this world is not our home. We are the sons and daughters of the royal family in another nation, and our King is not of this world!
Philippians 3:20-21 NKJV — For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
We know where our salvation comes from and who our real savior is, and it's not Washington D.C., or it shouldn't be. In this election cycle, are we as children of God looking for a man to save us and our nation?
I hope not. We should be praying for our nation because it has rejected God completely. Just look at the so-called moral party, the conservative party and see what abominations they have welcomed into their midst. They had pagans giving the prayers to pagan gods, transgender perverts giving speeches, online prostitutes headlining the convention, pro-abortion speakers, and every other thing you could imagine. Unfortunately, the other parties are no different because they have all rejected God, and when you reject God, you end up devoid of morality and sacrificing to pagan gods.
Our government will not save us, cannot even stop us from dying, and it certainly offers no promise beyond this life. We are foreign ambassadors here on this earth, soldiers of a heavenly army, and we cannot get entangled in the affairs of this world.
2 Timothy 2:3-4 NKJV — You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
We are running a race, and we must run it with endurance or we will not make it to the finish line. We must finish strong. As we have seen in some of the olympic races, it's how you finish that matters most. I haven't watched any of them personally, but my patients tell me quite a bit and keep me up to date on the American athletes. Many a race is won in the home stretch when the athlete calls up a reserve of strength and powers through to the finish line. They seem to drop an imaginary weight that has been holding them back all race and they take off. Even before they ever hit the track they try to trim down their physical weight to increase their speed even a minute amount. This is how we must run our race, our spiritual race.
Hebrews 12:1 NKJV — Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Earlier I mentioned how worried the world around us is, how stressed out they are about the outcome of everything in the world. From sports to politics to finances, they are constantly worried about something in their life. As runners in our spiritual race, we have to lay aside every weight, and one of the greatest weights we have to lose is worry and anxiety. It is easy for us to get entangled in the affairs of this world and worry about the outcome of elections, our sports, or the medical profession, or even our day-to-day lives, but if we are looking to our true source of salvation, we must know that we have nothing to worry about.
Luke 12:22-24 NKJV — Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on. “Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. “Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?
Christ asks a rhetorical question here, making the point that if God completely takes care of the animals, He is going to take complete care of us and provide us with everything that we need to live our lives. We have nothing to worry about because God will take care of us. What's more, as Jesus goes on, He tells us that worry is completely useless.
Luke 12:25-28 NKJV — “And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest? “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. “If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
God wants us to trust Him, and worrying is the opposite of trust in Him. It’s not easy to fully trust God, when we do, He will take care of us. Either way, worry is useless. It will not change anything, even the smallest thing about our own body, let alone something as huge as world affairs or our financial status in life. We can work towards things, but worrying about them will not improve our ability to work for them. Quite frankly, it will not improve our ability to run our race with endurance either.
Luke 12:29-32 NKJV — “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. “For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. “But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you. “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
The people of the world are full of worry and focused on their physical lives, but God knows what we need and He will take care of us, even down to the smallest detail of making sure we are clothed. It is His good pleasure, His joy to give us His kingdom. Worry is the same as fear, fear of the unknown, and worry creates events in our mind that usually stay right there, only living in our imagination, and they never come true.
The government and medicine promise us endless things that they never deliver on, but none so much as peace. Without a doubt, this is the thing that they can never achieve. God promises us peace in our lives, and all we have to do is trust Him. Quite frankly, when we do that, no matter what happens around us, it's a peaceful life.
John 14:27 NKJV — “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Psalm 57:1-4 NKJV — To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David when he fled from Saul into the cave.
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me!
For my soul trusts in You;
And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge,
Until these calamities have passed by. I will cry out to God Most High,
To God who performs all things for me. He shall send from heaven and save me;
He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. Selah
God shall send forth His mercy and His truth. My soul is among lions;
I lie among the sons of men
Who are set on fire,
Whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
Yes, trusting in God is a peaceful life because we know that no matter what comes God will take care of us. He will deliver us from whatever may befall us, and whatever may try to kill us will fail as long as it is still our time to serve God in this physical life. I'd like to finish with Psalm 91, a Psalm of the peace that God gives to those who trust in Him.
Psalm 91:1-16 NKJV — He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.” Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler
And from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked. Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place, No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways. In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone. You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot. “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”
Anxiety is useless, it will not deliver us nor save us, just as no man will deliver us nor save us, and quite frankly, worry and anxiety is a wedge that will separate us from God eventually. So when we go out and about this week and the media tries to scare you with whatever the newest thing is, don't be a worry wart, be the child of God and the warrior you were meant to be. God will take care of you, because you were created to be His child.
Great words of encouragement. Needed to hear this! Thank you for sharing this!
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