Think about your current worries. Are you worrying about temporary things or things that won't matter in eternity? Is your worry adding one moment to your life, or might it be shortening your life? Does your worry imply that God doesn't know what you need or that He is unwilling to meet your need? Are you worried more about current reality or about what you think might happen?
Where do you believe God is when you're worried? Worry, by definition, is a lack of faith in God, It is, as one writer has said, "practical atheism." In fact, worry quickly becomes idolatry of the self: I am more concerned about myself than I am about trusting God's purposes. When we are at such a point, we aren't carrying the shield of faith.
If worry is a problem for you, ask God to help you to trust Him. We only trust people or things that prove to be faithful. (Has God proven His faithfulness to you?) The Enemy stakes his battle plan on your worry. It will rob you of faith and cause you to fall victim to him. Take up the shield of faith and stand against this scheme of the Enemy in your life.
Worry:
focuses on circumstances and self and obsesses about what might happen based on our thoughts.
Faith:
focuses on God, trusts what God has and will do based on God's Word
Worry:
elevates the temporary over the eternal, keeps us awake at night
Faith:
sees the eternal despite the temporary, gives us sleep at night
Worry:
is a tool of the Enemy
Faith:
is a gift of God
One of our biggest problems is that we get more focused on our circumstances than on the God who is bigger than our circumstances.
Ephesians 3:20-21
"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
- Chuck Lawless, Putting on the Armor, Equipped And Deployed for Spiritual Warfare
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