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Don't Let The Ants Pick At Your Bones
written by: Helen Dowd
Don't Let The Ants Pick At Your Bones
I Peter 5:7 - "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you."
"Tiny ants pick a carcase clean more surely than a lion does." That seems like a strange statement to start out with. But it is true. A lion will tear away the best part of a kill, but the ants will stay with the carcase until there is nothing left but dry bones. And it proves a point.
We glibly quote the verse, "Cast all your anxieties on him because he cares for you." (NIV), but when it comes to putting it to practice, that is another matter. We cry out to God when some big trouble comes along. We rest in the assurance that He will help us. We know He will. He has helped us out of other crises. So then, why is it so hard for us to trust God to look after the little daily worries in life? The fretting pressure of small worries will rob our heart of its peace and joy even more quickly than big problems can. God tells us that we are to be anxious for NOTHING.
Have you ever considered the fact that anxiety is SIN? I had never really thought about it as being a sin, just a weakness known to all mankind, non- Christian and Christian alike. It is a common view that anxious care is natural and even an innocent aspect of life. Most of us, as Christians, would be horrified if we were told that we were indulging in a secret sin because we have anxiety. But God calls it SIN. It is a weakness not to be pitied, but a sin to be renounced. The root of anxiety is a distrust of God.
Could any of us, for one moment, be anxious about our health, or money matters, or our future, if we really believe with all our heart in the perfect wisdom and perfect love of our Heavenly Father? Could we ever again have a care about the things of this life if we truly believed Jesus when He said, (Matthew 6:33) "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you."?
The story is told of a father, who asked his young son to go upstairs to the library and bring him a certain book. The boy was gone for a very
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