Worry — Part 1
Worry for the believer is really sin, because it doubts God, and there are really three reasons why it is sin. These three reasons we will consider over the next three day.
When we worry we doubt God’s love.The love of God for the believer is one of the grandest themes in the Bible. Our language has not words enough to express His love for us. Sometimes preachers are given to exaggeration, but on this theme there can be no exaggeration.
While calling in the home of a believer who had repeatedly suffered one trial after another, she exclaimed, “I guess God doesn’t love me anymore.” The reply was, “He loves you all the more,” and the following verses were quoted: “For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth… Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby” (Hebrews 12:6,11). God always has His afterward for those who suffer in light of His love.
Every time you worry, you doubt God’s all-sufficient love.
