Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be"
Its so hard sometimes. . .okay, pretty much all of the time to stop worrying about life. Big and small, we are creatures of worry. We worry about work, money, bills, careers, children, spouses, future situations, etc. What we tend to forget is how to enjoy the moments we are experiencing now, we miss out on life. Worrying leads to stress and stress increases the levels of cortisol in your bloodstream, which can lead to heart risks and obesity. By constantly worrying and stressing about life, you are causing your body to think that it is under attack and therefore must store food as fat and glucose in case of starvation.
How many of us can change our situation or the situation of others by worrying and stressing ourselves? Who benefits from worry? Many people are skeptic of many "every day" messages found within the Bible. I have been struggling a lot with worry recently. I was laid off of my nanny position because my boss decided to try being a stay-at-home Mom. In an effort to make a step towards a career and finding a new job, I signed up early to take the Personal Training Exam, and therefore was incredibly worried about passing and then finding a job afterwards. I have worried about bills, school, the future, my relationship with others. I found that as I worried about one thing, I would start to walk down the path of worry and find myself worry about more and more. After spending some time talking with a very close friend of mine, she shared with me what she had been reading in her devotions, encouraging me to give it all to the Lord and relax.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
-Matthew 6:25-34
It is just incredible to me that Jesus told us thousands of years ago that we need to relax and stop worrying, that He has everything taken care of. He knows better than us how our bodies work (he created them), and he knows that not only does worry cause us to take our focus off of him and miss out on life, but that it is harmful to our bodies.
God really does live up to his promises and take care of us. There is no other explanation to how incredible everything has worked out over the last month. I passed my Personal Training Exam, I was offered a position as a Personal Trainer at a gym, Mike also passed and got offered a job at the same gym, the two trainers currently there are both quitting, and the entire training program and current clients are pretty much being turned over to Mike and I. Oh, and I may have an opportunity to transfer to another online program in the Spring for a degree in Exercise Science! God is incredible and definitely exceeds expectations!
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