"Do Not Worry..."

I tend to worry a lot, especially when I am in new situations like I am right now starting this new job. I tend to have anxiety over things that aren't really worth being anxious about. I have been getting less and less sleep because of it and feel super exhausted today. This morning when I was reading my devotions I was reminded of the great passage "Do Not Worry" from Matthew 6...

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"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

Matthew 6:25-34

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God is in control and I have to keep reminding myself over and over of this. Why get stressed out over something in which I have zero control over? Why worry about something that hasn't even happened yet? So, I give up my control, I give up my worry and fear in order to have complete trust in a God who's plan is a million times better than the one I have for myself. Thanks again for all your prayers and please continue to pray for me as I start my new sales position on Tuesday. :]

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"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of it's troubles; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom