Pray, Trust and Believe....or Worry?

With all the news of things going on around the world in the past 24 hours it would be quite easy to let yourself get shaken with worry or fear and play "what if" scenarios in your head. However, I will stand on the truth that none of this surprises our God or catches Him off guard. Some people tend to act like God turned His back for a moment and something happened that He didn't expect. In times like this I don't try to explain "why" these things happen, I just pray and know that my God is still on the throne. Evil people do evil things, that is a sad fact. But God turns evil to good every day. I feel horrible for the families of each person on flight MH17 and I will spend my efforts praying for healing and peace for them instead of worrying about the state of the world tomorrow. If tomorrow concerns you that bad, then spend today making sure you are where God wants you and doing all you can to make sure others are secure with God as well. Matthew 6:25-34 is a great piece of scripture about wasting your time on worry. One of my favorite parts of that scripture is "Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?" And the answer is NO we cannot. But we can trust God with our tomorrow and do His will today! And that is true whether your in your own personal trial, or looking at the state of the entire world! Please join me in praying for our world and all the evil going on in it, but not spending our days worrying about it so much that it's distracting what God wants us to be doing today!