Why Worry?

I will never forget this song that became popular in the 80's. I used to sing it a lot without even realizing what it meant. For sure you know this song too, unless you were born in the 90's. Here it goes...

Here's a little song I wrote. I want to sing it note for note. Don't worry. Be happy.
The landlord says you've got some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

This is as far as I can remember but really, there is so much truth to this song. Luke 12:25 says: Which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? Isn't this just so real? I mean how can our worrying improve our situation? Yet, we still worry because our flesh, our human nature, is prone to worrying.

Worry starts with a little feeling that can grow bigger and bigger. It is a disease that slowly eats us up and can lead to severe depression. It is a disease that can take over our lives and control us, hindering us from allowing God to work in our lives.

The fallen world we live in brings about circumstances that are meant to make us worry -- economic crisis, no jobs, increasing prices of oil, war, calamities, crime, death, etc. There is no way any or all of these can have no effect on us... unless... we renew our minds.

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind (Romans 12:2).

This Scripture is so clear. God commands us NOT TO BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD. We are not to think the way they think, act the way they act, and talk the way they talk. The whole world is prone to worrying. So if we worry, just as they do, then we are conforming to the world. Yet, the only way we can prevent ourselves from not conforming is by renewing our minds. We are to have a total mind shift -- from the world's way to the Word's way.

Worry is an insult to God and His power to protect us, to provide for us, and to get us out of our difficult situations. In Isaiah 50:2, God said: Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?

Aren't Jesus' words so clear when He said...

Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?

Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence was not arrayed like one of these.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith? (Matthew 6:26, 28-30)

Worrying actually makes us take over our situation, side-stepping what God is doing and what He can do. And for as long as we have the human capability to do something about our situation, it is going to be easier to worry. It is only through being stripped off that we learn to let go and let God.

When I went through my financial crisis, and when I reached rock bottom, I lost even my ability to make money. My worrying didn't help because there was nothing I could do. I reached an utter point of helplessness. That's when I learned to totally surrender to God. I learned to go with the flow.

Believe me, I have all the reasons to justify why I can worry. There are just so many uncertainties around me... our living situation, not knowing when I can finally be with my eldest son again, my family so far away from me, etc. etc. etc. God surely trained me well during all those years of stripping me off, humbling me, and making me wait. I have learned to let go and let God. I have seen how He worked in impossible situations. I have witnessed how He fulfilled His promise for me, just when I was on the verge of giving up. I have seen how He has supernaturally provided for me and my family.

Now I am realizing more than ever that when you've been walking on water for so long, you become oblivious of the strong winds and storms and the fact that you may sink. The more you trust in God, the more you become desensitized to all the factors that can cause you to worry. Then you begin to live a worry-free life.

Lisa Maki is the founder of God'z Gurlz, a Bible-based online magazine for women whose mission is to is to provide a place where women can learn to manage their emotions, experience healing, receive love and acceptance, be free to be who God made them to be, and be the best they can be in their homes, schools, professions, relationships, and calling, through sharing of insights and experiences, counseling, prayer, and devotionals, thereby learning from and supporting each other.

For more of Lisa's articles, visit http://godzgurlz.com/

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Evolution Adapted to Survive Both Warming and Ice Ages - Don't Worry, Life Always Finds a Way

There was a famous quote in Jurassic Park the Hollywood movie; "life will always find a way," and it was well stated by the scientist in the movie. He's absolutely right and the evolution of species is well known. Earth species have adapted to survive in both warming periods and ice ages. And we humans should not be so arrogant to think that only we can save certain species because of climate change.

There was an interesting article on Terra Daily on June 13, 2011 which asks a provocative question in its title; "Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change?" by the Staff Writers at US Davis. Although this title was another play at global warming alarmism which incidentally irks me to no end, I read that title a different way, and need no more research or data to answer the question it asks.

Now then, let's talk about the polar bear, and I'm not sure how the polar bear became a cute little cuddly bear that we needed to save from extinction, but somehow Hollywood, Al Gore, and the entire group of global warming alarmists have convinced us that the polar bears are going to die out if we don't do something. The reality is a warming period is better for the polar bears because there is an abundance of life in the northern areas during a warming era.

With an abundance of life, there is more food to eat, and the polar bears get big, strong, plump, and the female polar bears no longer will need to kill one of their offspring to eat because they don't have enough food. Therefore the concept of the polar bears becoming extinct is rather silly. In fact we should be noting that their population numbers are increasing, and as each generation moves on and more offspring are born, it will be exponential growth.

Further, we must understand that the polar bear is a species that is probably over a million years old, and it has been through ice ages, as well as warming periods, so many in fact, that it's DNA is probably sequenced to a point that can handle warming periods or cooling periods. It can live in the heat, or subfreezing temperatures indefinitely. There have been reports already that the black bear and polar bears are nearly identical in DNA, thus, they are the same species.

One thing I find is that there are far too many people speculating that many species will die as the planet heats up. In fact there will be an abundance of life if there are warmer temperatures at either of our polls. There will be more birds, more fish, more sea mammals, and yes more polar bears. There will be more plankton, vegetation, and lots of minerals in the water for all kinds of life in general.

So when someone asks; can evolution outpace climate change? The answer is of course, and it already has, we don't need to do anything but sit back and watch, and I'm sure that will prove my point. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,777 articles by 7 PM on June 27, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..

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