WORRY/ANXIETY
“Worry is the interest we pay on tomorrow’s troubles.” E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Mount (Nashville: Abingdon, 1931), pg. 235. (Quote can be used alone in Short Shots section) Quote in relation to Matthew 6:19-34. Worrying about the future is like paying interest on a loan to be taken out next year. The payments in between are wasted, since one must still pay the full amount of interest when the loan is received, and in the meantime there is no money for present bills. Just so, anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its trouble; it only exhausts one’s strength to face today’s troubles. You cannot carry today’s burden since you are trying to carry tomorrow’s. And many of us try to carry yesterday’s burdens as well. The solution is to begin living one day at a time (give us this day our daily bread), and to seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.
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