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Mga Taga-Filipos 4:6

Parang natural na sa atin ang mag-worry. Iba’t iba ang bigat ng ating ipinag-aalala, pero lahat ay dumaraan dito.

“Paano ko mabibigyan ng maayos na buhay ang pamilya ko?” tanong ng isang tatay.

“Baka sa maling barkada mapasama ang anak ko,” pag-aalala ng isang nanay.

“Maka-graduate kaya ako?” sabi naman ng batang estudyante.

A simple glimpse into the world will give us reasons to be anxious. Wars, economic downfall, climate change, high prices of goods and services, unemployment, crime, poverty, sickness, and many more. These things take away our joy and fill our minds with worry, confusion, and uncertainty.

An article published in one of the biggest broadsheets in the country divides worry into this: 40% of our worries will never happen at all, 30% already happened, and we can do nothing about it, while 12% are unfounded health concerns, and 10% involve daily miscellaneous fretting that accomplishes nothing. That leaves only eight percent of things we should worry about.

Matthew 6:25–26 (NIV) commands us not to be anxious. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

God wants us to trust Him during our time of uncertainty and doubt. We can come to Him for everything we need with a grateful heart. He’s willing to give our heart’s desire if it is according to His will.