Anxiety is an expensive habit. Of course, it might be worth the cost if it worked. But it doesn’t. Our frets are futile. Jesus said, “You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it” (Matthew 6:27). Worry has never brightened a day, solved a problem, or cured a disease.
How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.”
Sadly, worrying is one job you can’t farm out, but you can overcome it. There is no better place to begin than in verse two of the Shepherd’s Psalm (23), “He leads me beside the still waters.”
-- Max Lucado in “Traveling Light: Releasing
the Burdens You Were Never Meant to Bear”
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