Do Not Worry

Today is my last day of classes before Finals, and I’m beginning to understand why everyone calls this week and next “Hell Week.”  I wrote yesterday of how I wasn’t really all that worried or concerned about any exams… unfortunately, my words caught up with me.  I just got out of class, which happens to be the class I’m struggling with, and I realize that I am scared out of my wits about taking this test.  Currently, according to the records online, I have a C+.  Meaning… I have to do well on the final in order to get the B that I’m really wanting to have.  In my worrying about this, I remembered 1 Peter 5:7, which says, “Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares about you.”  Short and sweet and to the point.  Just what I needed today.  This tiny passage of Scripture, so small and possibly insignificant to some people, has been with me for the past few years and I love to look back on it, to lean on it and remember that a) I need not worry, and b) God cares about me.

The best part is, that’s not even the best piece of Scripture for moments of worry.  I really enjoy reading over Matthew 6:25-34.  Here, Matthew records Jesus speaking on worrying, and I love so much how Jesus asks the question “who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”  Why do I love this so much?  Simple.  Because it’s so stinkin’ true.  The God who created the heavens and the earth, who cares enough about the birds in the sky and even the little tadpoles in the pond, created me and cares about me.  So far, He has blessed me with more than I can even account for.  How then, if He has taken so much care of me, could I possibly worry about a silly little test?  Maybe my way of coming to this conclusion is faulty, but I think that I’m on to something.

Since being at school, I have not really spent that much time in the Word or in prayer, but instead I have been focusing more on making lasting relationships.  While this is a good thing to do, it should not be my focus, and I am having to learn that the hard way.  Today I turn over a new leaf, deciding to spend some time in the Word.  The schoolwork is being put down, the computer is being put away, and the music and tv are being shut off so that I may hear what the Lord is trying to get me to listen to.

For anyone still reading, I realize that my way of writing is a bit sporadic and nothing I say seems to flow.  Forgive me for this, but this is just how my brain works.  Nothing ever seems to go together when I’m thinking, and as such it reflects in my writing.  My English teachers in high school absolutely hated this.  haha.

Anyways, I have nothing left to say except on the movie I am watching right now, Blood Diamonds (or something like that) on USA.  I wish what I was thinking connected to the movie, because it has some amazing underlying messages that one could very easily connect to Christ’s love for us.

More on that later.

Love in Him.