"Anxious is a word that simply means to worry, don't worry. That is the heart and the soul of the passage (Matthew 6:25-34), the Lord is calling for us to cease from worrying...the Bible tells us that for a Christian, for a child of God, worry is a sin. Because worry is the equivalent of saying, 'God I know You mean well by what You say but I'm just not sure You can pull it off'. Worry is the sin of distrusting the promise and the providence of God, and yet we do it all the time.
William Inge said, "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it's due." Another writer said, "Worry is a thin stream of fear that trickles through the mind, if encouraged it'll cut a channel so wide that all other thoughts will be drowned in it." And one writer put it this way, "Worry is faith in the negative, trust in the unpleasant, assurance of disaster and belief in defeat." And one writer said, "Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterdays troubles."
~J. MacArthur Link
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