Worry has been a companion of mine for as long as I can remember. My parents modeled it and I just assumed it was a way of life. It wasn’t until I was over 30 that God really began revealing this as sin in my life.  Worry can be as subtle as wondering what someone thinks about me and how something I’ve been working on will go; to worry about how my kids will turn out, finances, our nations economy, the election, the war, and evil that is in the world. 

Why is worry a sin? After all, it seems natural that we would be concerned about the things that matter to us. As you know, the Bible tells us many times not to worry or be anxious – why?  Worry undermines God’s glory being revealed in my life. It proclaims that God is not big enough to take care of this world. It says that He is not Sovereign. It’s serious!

What’s the antidote to worry?  Of course it’s trust in God and believing in His sovereignty.  Just this morning I read this verse: Blessed be the Lord who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Ps 68:19 This is one of perhaps thousands of verses or examples in the Bible that could build up trust in God.  Reflecting daily on the cross also helps because it reminds us that the worst thing that could ever happen to us, the wrath of God being poured out on us has already been taken care of by Jesus Christ. He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Romans 8:32

Certain music has helped me to preach this truth to myself.  I highlighted the Come Weary Saints album on Monday – God’s sovereignty is its theme.  Valley of Vision would be another album in that category.  I want to highlight a single song today – though there are many that preach this truth.  I love the line “And so to Him I leave it all.”

Whatever My God Ordains Is Right

Original words by Samuel Rodigast, 1676
Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1863
Music and alternate words by Mark Altrogge
As recorded on In a Little While

Lyrics

Whatever my God ordains is right
In His love I am abiding
I will be still in all He does
And follow where He is guiding
He is my God, though dark my road
He holds me that I shall not fall
And so to Him I leave it all

Whatever my God ordains is right
He never will deceive me
He leads me by the proper path
I know He will not leave me
I take content, what He has sent
His hand can turn my griefs away
And patiently I wait His day

Whatever my God ordains is right
Here shall my stand be taken
Though sorrow, or need, or death be mine
Yet I am not forsaken
My Father’s care circles me there
He holds me that I shall not fall
And so to Him I leave it all

Whatever my God ordains is right
Though now this cup in drinking
Bitter it seems to my faint heart
I take it all unshrinking
My God is true, each morn anew
Sweet comfort yet shall fill my heart
And pain and sorrow shall depart

© 2007 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI)

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