I laid myself down and slept.
I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me. (Psalm 3.5 WEB)
I have come to the conclusion that worry is really idolatry. We know worrying and fretting is sin but we like to excuse it as a small thing. At the root of worry is the idea that God either can not or will not take care of us. Instead of trusting God we choose to take the matter into our hands - and we worry and fret. Rather than keeping God in his place on the throne of the universe we quietly strip him of his place as Lord and assume the throne ourselves.
When I worry I am choosing not to trust God; I am setting myself up as being better prepared to handle my problems. I abandon faith in favor of fear and insecurity forgetting that without faith it is impossible to please him!
The psalmist was able to lie down and sleep secure in the knowledge that his God would sustain him.
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