"Worriers & Non-worriers" - by Rev. Weldon Bares

E. Stanley Jones was a famous Methodist missionary to India. He was a wonderful writer and theologian.

He wrote about worry: “I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land, faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life. Faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry, my being is gasping for breath. These are not my native air.”

He went on to write, “We do not know why it is that worriers die sooner than non-worriers. But that is a fact. But I who am simple of mind think I know. We are inwardly constructed in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul for faith and not fear. God made us that way. To live by worry is to live against reality.” (Abundant Living)

The book of Proverbs adds: “A heavy heart weighs a person down.” (Proverbs 12:25)

The Apostle Paul affirmed, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Philippians 4:6)

Jesus said it like this: “Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow.” (Matthew 6:34)

Let’s remember today that worriers die sooner than non-worriers.