It’s normal to worry from time to time.  Given life’s many unknowns and challenges, worry could be considered a natural response to many situations.  But chronic and all-consuming worry can be troublesome and interfere with our ability to function freely and calmly in our daily lives.  More importantly, problem worry can make faith in God from more difficult.

When you find yourself worrying about a future because you are picturing a negative outcome, you are, in effect, saying, “I can predict the future”.  But, the fact is, you can’t, and you are worried about what may happen, not what will happen.  Worry itself serves no purpose unless it spurs a plan of action.  If your mind has been taken over by chronic worry, your risk assessment skills may be distorted.  You may even find yourself consumed with worry about future possibilities when there isn’t any real evidence that the negative event will actually come to pass.  Just remember that most of the things we worried about never happened anyway.

Worry is our bigger spiritual infirmity and today we are praying God to deliver us from all our infirmities, mainly our endless worries about the future.