One Worry at A Time

Worry is such a nasty creature. I know I’m not suppose to, but not doing it is harder than knowing I shouldn’t. Are you ever a "Worry Wort?"

About a month after I received the shipment of my book, I was sitting on my bed praying. As I stared at the massive stack of brown boxes towering toward the ceiling and thought about the other mammoth mound stowed in the closet, I cried out to the Lord and asked Him how He was going to "get rid of" over 5,000 books. This was not going to be an easy task.

I was worried. You might even say I was getting increasingly discouraged, depressed, and heavy-hearted with the magnitude of the whole marketing aspect. It’s a lot of work and if you don’t know that much about it, it looks even grimmer. But you know how God is - faithful even when we are not, in complete control even when we think things are out of control, and right on time even when we think He’s late.

So what was His answer to my plea? "One book at a time." That may sound rather obvious, but to me it was a reminder that He would take care of it. And He is. He has put me into contact with some really great people who are helping me with the ins and outs of marketing. And books are slowly selling – one at a time. Isn’t God faithful? When I least expect it, He brings someone across my path to bless my socks off.

"The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth forever: forsake not the works of thine own hands." (Psa. 138:8)

God is trying to simplify my life and all I do is complicate the matter. I worry about things. He says, "Cast your cares on Me." I stress over the fact of getting the word out about the book and unbeknownst to me, God is getting the word out through people I never thought of and some I’ve never even met. I have yet to learn God’s timing is perfect – I worry about getting the books out and God says we’ll get them out one book at a time. I worry about the books that are out on review and I’m not getting any feed back, God says, "In my time."

Everything is all about God’s perfect, complete and totally informed time. Period. "…I the LORD will hasten it in his time." (Isa. 60:22) "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven:" (Eccl. 3:1)

So when you start to worry about something…anything at all, don’t. Instead cast your worrying on the Lord. Trust Him to handle everything, and in His perfect timing, because He is fully capable of handling all our "what if’s," "how come’s," "how am I ever’s," and "ahhhhhhhh! help me’s." But unfortunately giving up our worrying doesn’t happen overnight, but thankfully through the Lord’s strength and by His power we can overcome our apprehension, anxiety and trepidation ONE WORRY AT A TIME.