Are you a worrier?

I’ve pretty much always worried. I worry about the future, worry about bills, etc. Since being saved, it seems the worry has gotten so bad, but then it’s also been that it seems I’ve been hit with some massive issues. God’s way of getting me to overcome the worry?

So I get a call last night from a friend, who is worried, and she wanted to talk about her worries. Well…I was in bed and didn’t take the call. So I listened to her message then laid there and prayed…and worried. God, do I call her back? I know she will keep me on the phone for AT LEAST 30 minutes and put me off schedule making me tired, grumpy and irritable tomorrow. So I text her I was in bed and will call her tomorrow on the way to church or for her to be at church early so we can talk before church as I have to get Mike home right after. She wants to monopolize my time at church, lays on a guilt trip about me not spending enough time with her, even after I have been on the phone with her every night for the last three nights. I’m like…she doesn’t even respect that I have other obligations and friends too and I will not let her make me feel guilty!

But we’re to esteem others higher than ourselves. We’re to serve others, right? But I felt you wanted me to change my schedule around to make things better for me and Mike, by going to bed earlier and doing my reading in the morning instead of evening, leaving me time to spend playing with Mike, etc. So if I call her back, I’ll be too tired to read in the morning and I definitely need to get my mind renewed daily. What do I do? I worried myself to sleep. I woke in the middle of the night. I worried. I prayed. I didn’t have the answer. I tossed and turned.

This morning I got up to my new routine, did my exercise, my reading, etc. Then went to prayer and meditation. I got quiet with God and God said….

You said last night forgive me if I’m doing the wrong thing and yet you’re still holding onto worrying about it. I know you want to do the right thing, but I weigh the heart. If you worry whether or not you’re doing right or wrong, you’re being condemned. No one will ever do everything right and what is right for one is wrong for another. Do the best you can and stop worrying once you make a decision what to do.

Do you worry? If you’re like me, that’s going to sound great to you as well, but hard to put into practice, but I keep trying to put it into practice.