Worry-Free, Are You Ready?

“I don’t care anymore, do what you want. I’m done worrying about it. I’m done.”

She clicked the disconnect button on the cell, missing those old phones you could slam down hard on the cradle. Somehow a finger tap wasn’t enough. Raw emotions rang the bell atop her internal ‘test your strength’ limit.

It wasn’t true you know. She still cared, but she was spent. The worry sucked the breath from her lungs like a vice grip. Maybe if she stopped caring, she could let go of the worry.

Sound familiar? I think we’ve all been there.

But caring isn’t an emotion we can easily switch off, and why would we want to?

How can we still care, yet ditch the choke-hold of worry?

There is a way.

Pray away the worry-gray.

Praise Him in the light of day, and dark of night where He brings light.

It doesn’t mean we stop caring, it means we start surrendering.

Surrender to the One who takes care of our cares. tweet that

He cares for me and He cares for you.

And worry-free we can be. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.

Are you ready?

“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

                                                 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV)

Are We Bandaging our Bondage?

While reading through my Facebook news feed, I saw that a friend had posted a scripture verse from Romans.  After posting it, she caught an error.  Instead of using the word “bondage,” the word “bandage” was used.   How strikingly similar these two words are in form, while strikingly different in meaning.

A bandage is used to cover, dress, or bind up a wound, while bondage is the state of being a slave to something. So in essence, bandages bind wounds, while bondage causes them.

How many times have we slapped a bandage on a sin that keeps us in bondage?  We’ve tried binding it up, covering it up, dressing it up pretty, hoping no one will notice.  Instead, it winds up looking like torn off toilet paper stuck to a shaving wound that won’t quit bleeding through.

Addiction, depression, abuse, loneliness,…..

Pain is real; bondage is real;  a bandage won’t fix it.

Let’s stop wasting bandages on our bondage, and instead do this:

• Surrender it to God through prayer
  

“He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.”  Psalm 147:3

“Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
 if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
 then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;you will stand firm and without fear.”                                                                                                                     Job 11:13-15

• Submerge yourself in the WORD

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  John 8:32

• Surround yourself with trusted, godly friends:

“As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.”                                                                                 Proverbs 27:17

 

I’m glad I didn’t miss my friend’s post.  God can use even a wrong word at the right time to speak truth to our hearts.

What truth has God spoken to your heart today?