Why Worry?

JAN 1 2026 HAPPY NEW YEAR

Another year gone. Fastest year yet. As I grow older life feels more and more like a dream. It goes by so quickly and is forgotten so soon that it's as if I only dreamed what happened. The first 20 years of my life seemed like a lifetime in itself. The last 20 years feel like a blur. All I can take from the last 20 years is that I've grown older. The perspective of the younger years is that of a young man who not only hopes but believes that he can do anything and that anything is possible. But mostly that there are joyful and exciting days ahead, when he can be an adult and determine the destiny of his life. As a young man I determined to give my life to God completely and I followed the plan. I read the bible and I prayed every day and I stayed away from lusts and temptations. I crucified my body. I fasted. I went to church. I spread the word. I wasn't ashamed of my beliefs and I knew God was guiding my life. But what I wanted more than anything in this world was a wife. I went off to bible college believing that that's where I would meet her. That didn't happen and I lost my faith in the goodness of God guiding my life and I rebelled. I had a crisis of faith. I lost my way. I fell away. I tripped up. The story of the rest of my life is finding my way back to faith in God. All I can say is that I had to learn the hard way. I learned several valuable lessons. 1. I can't beat God 2. There is a God 3. I'm not him 4. I'll never figure everything out so quit trying to 5. accept whatever life throws at me as God's will and let him worry about the rest 6. God's word is true and he never will leave me 7. Whatever happens trust in God.

These lessons I believe I have learned so thoroughly that I have achieved a state of mind and heart where nothing can take these beliefs away. Most of all and most important is to surrender. I am not in charge, so I'm resigned to accept whatever comes my way. I don't have to have things my way to believe in God's goodness. His ways are higher than my ways, and his thoughts are so far beyond my thoughts that it is simply a waste of time to ask "why?" so why ask why? So whatever the new year brings I'm not afraid to face it. I know God is with me and he is on my side. So who cares what happens? What? Me worry? And I still don't have a wife. It's all for the best I suppose. I'm closer to dying than I am to living another 20 years so the sooner Jesus comes the better. 2026 could be that year. 


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