“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you” (1 Peter 5:7).
Dr. W. C. Alvarez, a stomach specialist at the Mayo Clinic, says that eighty percent of the stomach disorders that come to them are not organic, but functional. Wrong mental and spiritual attitude throw functional disturbances into digestion. Most of our ills are caused by worry and fear, and it is my experience that faith is more important than food in the cure of stomach ulcers.
In order to keep your commission clean, you must be free from worry and fear. Worry is not merely weakness; it is wickedness. It says God has abdicated, and that we have to hold the world together by our worrying, but the opposite happens. Worriers wreck their world as well as their lives. Worry is sin against God and ourselves. Cast it on Christ and His cross; then you will live by cheer, rather than by fear.
“Be careful for nothing … ” (Philippians 4:6). In other words “stop being worried about anything.”
Someone has wisely said, “If we trust we do not worry, and if we worry we do not trust.” “Trust in the LORD, and do good … and verily thou shalt be fed” (Psalm 37:3).