Do You Trust God Enough to Hand Him Your Worry?

I’ve been posting a lot about anxiety and related issues for Mental Health Awareness Month. But memorize the quote in the image below from Pastor Craig Groeschel of Life Church. It comes from his sermon, Why Do I Always Worry?, around the 12-minute mark. Ask yourself every single day, “Where am I still believing He won’t come through or that I have to do it myself?”

Why this question is so profoundly impactful for professionals

Our culture is built on the idea that YOU perform. YOU do the work. YOU design and plan your life. YOU take control. YOU, YOU, YOU. There’s not a day that goes by where we don’t hear ideas around personal accountability, even as we stress being part of a team. (BTW, don’t you find it a little striking that personal accountability is often touted as a benefit not to integrity for integrity’s sake, but to the productivity of the team?)

When you hear this message every day, it’s almost impossible to conclude that YOU don’t have to be the one to worry. I can guarantee that when professionals are awake in the middle of the night, it’s because they feel like they have to be the one to create perfection and minimize risk.

But Jesus specifically tells you worry isn’t going to help you (Matthew 6:25-34). He says not to do it for that reason. But He also wants you to abandon your self-dependence and trust in everything God can and wants to do for you. He knows there’s nothing so heavy that you can’t give it to God and watch Him carry it like a toothpick.

An even deeper question about trading worry for trust

Why would God want you to trust Him?

It’s not JUST so YOU have a good life on Earth and get all the perks of Heaven. (That’s certainly part of it, though.)

It’s because He kind of likes you.

He enjoys being connected to you.

He gets joy from it.

YOU.

Giving joy to the Creator of the universe.

He wants you to do that.

And.

That.

Takes.

You.

Trusting.

So, if as professionals we’re going to talk so much about how relationships are everything, maybe we should get that idea out of the office and back toward God.

You up for finally doing that in your life?

Go pray.