Worry-Free Attitude

14 June 2006 – Worry-Free Attitude

Philippians 4:6-7

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

It is quite common and unavoidable that we humans like to worry things around us. Have you noticed that? Taking an example, a person worry of the food he cooked whether delicious or not, worry about when he is driving, worry about his work, worry about his study, etc. There are tons of things to worry for us, that will lead us to serious frustration and depression.

Reminiscing what had I said last few days, it is the attitude that matters! Everyone has an attitude, which greatly influenced his or her personality. If one has a indifferent attitude, then one will end up becoming a lazy and sloppy personality; If one has an attitude of self-centered, then one will end up becoming a selfish and unkind person. If someone has a worry-bounded attitude, then his life will become full of pessimistic view and frustration.

God has taught us to free from worries! Of course, he will sure teach us how to do when he told us not the do something (obvious huh..?). He told us to pray about everything instead of worrying, which does not give help to the particular thing but give disadvantages to the people who is worrying. Tell God what we need through praying, he will listen to our prayers of faith! Prayer is powerful, it is my self experience! For many times after we have pray for something, it ends up with that God had listened to our prayers and make the best preparation for us.

Time for a tiny testimonial:

For your information, I have been offered to study at Singapore in the campus of National University of Singapore (NUS). After we applied for the campus, we have prayed for it everyday and every night, and the result has come out to be optimistic! When I come to applying my accommodation of my hostel in NUS, we have prayed to God that he will prepare a good place for us, and guess what, God has provided not my first choice, not my second choice, not my third choice, but instead they(NUS) provided me a room which is far away from my faculty, kinda upset huh? Indeed, for the first moment I knew that. But due to the opinion of seniors, they said this place is definitely amazing and possess a quite nice environment, good in traffic, filled with convenient facilities. Thanks to the Lord!

So, why should we worry about things around us? God has prepared everything for us which are the best for us, though sometimes not what we wanted, but it definitely the best for us! Think about it!

Franco