{"id":515,"date":"2018-01-26T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2018-01-26T21:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:01:44","slug":"freedom-from-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theholisticpursuit.com\/blog\/freedom-from-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom from Worry"},"content":{"rendered":"
Worry can really lead you down a hopeless road, almost suffocating you, consuming your life. I feel like it has a snowball effect as well. Worry leads to more worry. I looked up some antonyms to worry and here are a few:<\/p>\n
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I want those things! Yes, I will take an extra helping of joy today. I realize that my thoughts are so powerful. This is becoming more and more real to me, especially as I have recently gone through some of the hardest months of my life. What we do focus our mind on truly does affect us. I think there is a reason the Bible says to dwell on what is lovely and pure and true. (Phil. 4:8)<\/p>\n
I’ve heard it said that worry is like sitting in a rocking chair waiting for it to go somewhere. But we all know, it never does. “Don’t worry about it, it will work out fine,” our friends tell us. And it usually does. I heard of a guy once who had a worry box. Every time he had a worry he wrote it down and placed it in the box. Then on Wednesdays he would allow himself to have a time where he read them all and he gave himself permission to worry. But it was only for a short while, and it had to be on a Wednesday. What he found was that when Wednesday rolled around, almost everything he had written down and put in the box had already been taken care of. Imagine if he would have wasted all that time worrying for nothing!<\/p>\n
The definition of worry is “give way to anxiety or unease; allow one’s mind to dwell on difficulties or trouble. I think a root of worry is lack of control. We want something to go a certain way but it isn’t. Or we don’t yet know the outcome so we worry, even though the bible says worry doesn’t add a single hour to our lives (Matthew 6:27). We have to surrender and give whatever our worry is to the Lord. Another root of worry is not trusting the Lord. He says He works things for the good of those that love Him (Romans 8:28) and to trust in Him and not lean on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5).<\/p>\n