WORRY ! WORRY !! WORRY !!!

Britain is becoming a nation of worriers, according to a new survey, with the financial crisis giving people ever more reason to fret about their lives.
The average Briton now spends two and a quarter hours of every day worrying - six and half years of the average life span - a figure up 30 minutes a day from last year, according to the worry index compiled by reallyworried.com, a support group.
Young adults - those aged between 16 and 24 - worry the most, and women worry substantially more than men, according to the survey of 1,400 people nationwide.
The top five concerns in 2008 were : the cost of living, energy pricings, personal health, income and personal debt.

If you're a worrier, there's hope for you too ! Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, wrote : "When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry. When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation. If you know how to worry, you already know how to mediate !"

Worry may be a symptom of a bigger problem. Sometimes it's a lack of gratitude for the way God has cared for us in the past. Or Perhaps it's a lack of faith that God really is trustworthy. Worry is sin. It is caused by lack of faith, a failure to believe God's Word. Yet it is a sin that many Christians find hard to overcome.

Matthew 6 : 25-34 reminded us "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.
We Christians need not fear the perils around us because the eyes of the Lord is always upon us.

Philippians 4 : 6 tell us "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. "

Remember WORRY DOES NOT IMPROVE THE FUTURE, IT ONLY RUINS THE PRESENT and WORRY IS LIKE A ROCKING CHAIR - IT WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO DO, BUT IT WON'T GET YOU ANYWHERE