For whatever reason, these past weeks I have spent considerable time in Psalm 37, especially verse 8..."Do not fret - it leads only to evil." In other words, anxiousness leads to sin.
By definition, "to fret" is...to express worry, annoyance, discontentment; to be eaten at, corrosion, wearing away, gnawed; worn; torment, irritate, consume; eroded place; irritation of mind, agitation; to gnaw with teeth in manner of rodent!
Yet even more, anxiety itself is sin. All the feelings and fears and angst that come with "fretting" are all...
1. lies
2. based upon "what ifs" and assumptions
3. sin because it is not trusting God and it leads to "evil" or "evildoing"...i.e. sin.
To fret is to not walk in Truth, and instead entertains the voice of the enemy, trailing off to "never-never land" and not living in the presence of God's inner voice.
Further, what I also realize in my fretting, my motivations change...I seek more love in all the wrong places because I have forgotten my true identity as His beloved. I become consumed by money, or lack thereof, and what I "need" to merely get by. In this, I continue to discover money truly is the root of all evil. Our entire world revolves around it...our thoughts, lives, energy...everything we do. Yet God does not function in this kingdom; His is greater. His Kingdom is life in Him, with Him, the unseen.
God commands me to not fret. What is the opposite of fret? Trust. It means to trust what I cannot see yet my spirit knows...to be Kingdom-minded...seeking not to understand but to merely trust. God is faithful to His promises...it will not come in the way I expect and there is nothing to hold on to but this promise. Trust.
Psalm 37
2 comments:
oh great... when i'm not at holidaytrip we can meet... tell me the date when you know it and then i hope it will work out this year :-)
hahaha...we posted about the same thing, just in different words. if you get a chance read my post on glowministry.blogspot.com titled "Why So Negative?". Good to see you tonight too. :)
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