Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought. — Matt 6:25
One does not meet many whose faces shine always with the light of a perfect peace. Is worrying a sin, or is it only an infirmity? There certainly are many warnings in the Bible against it. Isaiah gives the secret of an unanxious life: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.” Paul exhorts against worrying, and tells us how to keep it out of our life: “In nothing be anxious.” But how can we obey this council? The answer is: “In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Instead of worrying about matters, we are to put them out of our hands into God’s by prayer. Then “the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.” Peter puts the lesson in this way: “Casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He careth for you.” This is a lesson which we are to learn, and which we are to strive to live out in our common days.