Worry About Faith

The title is meant to be an oxymoron, mutually exclusive, non-sense, contradictory.
Faith and worry do not work with each other.
One conquers the other.
Either you worry, and worry wins; or there is faith and faith wins.
Faith is a gift from God, a gift of the Holy Spirit; it is yours. But you can choose worry, and faith is blocked.
Now I hear your brain alarms going off… “ya but…”
Believe me, mine are ringing too; this message is as much for me as for anyone else.
Aren’t there things as parents, or grandparents, or patriots, or environmentally concerned citizens, or the financially savvy retirement bound, or pharmaceutically informed consumers, or even spiritually-attuned-to-the-end-of-the-world believers, that we ought to be worried about?
Is there a place for healthy concern? Fill in the blanks with your own examples:
Parents _____________________
Grandparents ___________________
Patriots _______________________
Environmentally concerned citizens _________________________
Pharmaceutically informed consumers __________________________
Spiritually-attuned-to-the-end-of-the-world believers _________________
But where is the line between worry and healthy concern?
Last Sunday in church we heard Jesus’ own words on the matter: (Matt 634 ) So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today.
The psalmist's chant from Psalm 131 are shaped to calm the anxious soul: “Like a child upon its mother’s breast, my soul is quieted within me.”
And Isaiah’s ancient prophesy in chapter 49 are his timeless description of the care God gives, even in the face of severe worry and doubt: “The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me!”
God answers any worry, any doubt, any fear from any source: “See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands!”
That is enough to quiet my “ya but”!