You would think by the sounds in my office that the end of the world was happening.  People are hurting.

What is it that I worry about in this mess?  Same thing that scares me the most - people.  People panic and do really stupid things and cause more panic, which results in a hard to break cycle of panic and the resulting stupid actions.  That is what scares me.

Me?  I am OK.  I have complete faith that God sees what I need and He will provide.  My health has been kind of a mess lately, and yet, God has provided.  I found myself being very frazzled with it all last week.  My mom came up on Friday to help me out on my day off.  She is such an amazing blessing, I can’t begin to tell you.  I started to share with her the worries I had throughout the night.  I asked her if I was doing the right thing, and why was I so frustrated.  Why weren’t things easier, and why were all these things happening?  She and I talked and she told me not to be worried about the things of the earth.  She asked me if God had never provided my every need?  He always had.  The next verse she quoted, I knew well, but it stopped me dead in my tracks.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” - Mark 8:36

I don’t know what is going on lately in the world, but the dark forces are out in full force. I think that is what was on my mind.  There is a verse that hangs on my refrigerator to remind me of something very important when the world seems so full of evil:

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-9

Amen.  Thank God for that.  Sometimes, you just have one of those days, and I had one Friday.  I felt so helpless, but with God, there is always hope.  I share this because I know that many are worried about many things.  I close with a verse that God was reminding me today, as others in my office were worrying about their 401K’s.

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.  - Matthew 6:31-4