Do you find yourself worrying all the time about what’s going to happen to you, or where you’re heading? I think all of us do, we worry in varying degrees. We look at our lives and wonder whether we’re on the right track, or whether we’re living the life we’re meant to be living or not. We look at our problems and we see them as even more reasons to worry.

Why do we worry anyway? I think it’s because we’re not certain of the outcome of events. We worry because we’re not sure if what’s going to happen next will be to our advantage, we worry that things won’t work out. It’s just the natural order of things, after all CHANGE is the only thing permanent in this universe, right? Every time we’re not certain of something, and it’s an important issue in our life, we worry.

Don’t get me wrong, worrying isn’t a bad thing in itself. It’s actually a normal emotion that comes with being human. But excessive worrying, now that isn’t healthy. There are all kinds of things we worry about… we’re worried we won’t find love, worried that we’ll never amount to anything, worried about what other people will think, etc. What we fail to remember is that there’s a grand design. God has already mapped out our lives for us. He knows where we’ve come from and where we’re heading. And it is my belief that every little thing that happens in our lives is no coincidence. It’s actually all part of the grand scheme of things, all part of God’s Master Plan for us.

Now we may not understand His wisdom, we may not understand why certain things in our lives are happening, or why we have to get hurt, or why we’re experiencing what we’re experiencing. There are times when we get so tired and defeated, that we don’t see the point anymore. It may even feel like it’s all just one misfortune after another, and you wonder when it’s gonna end, or how you’re gonna turn your life around. Sometimes, life gets so messed up that we don’t know where to turn or what to do, so we worry.

For me, the way I handle things, first I worry, then I deal with it and move on. It has always been my firm belief that I am nothing without God. I will be the first to admit that I’ve done a lot of worrying in my life. But at the end of the day, I know I’m right where He wants me to be. Of course, that doesn’t make the pain go away, and it doesn’t make it any less, but somewhere inside me, I’m comforted. I still do have fears, but I force myself to think that God knows what He’s doing and He will lead me to where He wants me to go. I just have to constantly remind myself that I’m not in control, that God is.

When you put God in the center of your life, you put your life in His hands. You let Him take the wheel, and make Him the driver of your life. And when God is driving, you need not worry because He knows the way. It’s really amazing when you are able to surrender your life to God, when you say, “Okay, God, you know what’s best for me. Take control of my life.” It’s the most amazing feeling, you won’t need to worry because you know that whatever happens, He is behind it. And you know that you’re in safe hands.

Just a piece of advice from me to you. It may not mean much to some, but it may help others: Try lifting everything up to God, and surrender your problems to Him. We may not know what to do with our lives, but God has plans for us. He works in mysterious ways, even ways that we never would have dreamed about, if we only let Him. So don’t worry, there’s a Master Plan.

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