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The Howe Enterprise
"BE NOT ANXIOUS"
(ASV)
RALPH BURKE
Minister, First Methodist Church
Howe, Texas
I suppose we can take for granted that
practically every one of us face the problem,
of worry. We do not all worry about the
same things, nor to the same extent, but at
one time or another most of us have wrestled
with this demon of the mind.
It is interesting to learn that the word
worry litterally means "to srtangle”. Have
not many of us known at times that physical
sensation? When we have found ourselves
in the midst of baffling and alarming situa-
tions, have we not felt as if something had
us by the throat?
Worry is one of the most destructive ot
human emotions. No state of mind is more
injurious to body, mind, and spirit. Excessive
anxiety disrupts and paralyzes the whoie
personality. Worry destroys people physically
Anxiety destroys men mentally. It blurs
all mental, processes, and disturbs reason.
Worry ruins our dispositions. It makes us
touchy, irritable, impatient, and sad. When
people fly off the handle and get upset, it
is often due to some strangling anxiety..
Worry drains off our energies, reduces our
working efficiency, and makes us unfit for
present duties. Actually, the thing that
tires us so is not the difficulty of our tasks,
but the exhausting anxieties and fears. Said
Henry Ward Beecher: "It is not the work
that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy,
you could hardly put more upon a man than
he can bear. It is not the revolution that
destroys machinery, but the friction."
All of us are aware of these feelings from
our own experience. What we want to know
is how to conquer our anxieties. There is
no victory we would rather win. Nothing
would give us so much mental quiettude,
physical relaxation and spiritual radiance.
What we are needing, then, is not diagnosis,
but cure. u ■
Let me state positivelv that there is a
remedy for this sickness. Worry is not
incurable. One frequently hears people say,
“Oh, I know it’s silly to worry, but I just
can’t help it.” But that is not true, vve
can help it! We must stop excusing our-
selves in this matter. If worry, had been
incurable, Jesus would not have commanded,
"Be not anxious" (Matt. 6:251. Jesus was
not saying, "Be easygoing”. We can never
solve our problems by indifference, nor by
assuming a frivolous attitude toward life.
God has put us in a dangerous world, and
every day situations confront us which re-
quire serious consideration.
It may help us if we remind ourselves
that worry is useless and therefore stupid.
Worry accomplishes nothing—gets us no-
where. It is sterile of good results. It is a
"fruitless expenditure of the energies of the
mind.” “Which of you” asks Jesus, "by
being anxious can add one cubit unto his
stature” (Matt. 6:27. ASV.) We do not
grow taller by worrying: about our height.
An. old proverb asks, "By running in the
boat, do we come to land?” Worry seems
to be useless, but we have so many problems.
Recently I read that a ranchman said to a
group of his friends, "Boys, I reexon I’ve
had more things to worry me than any mar
in Texas—but hardly any of them ever
happened.”
But suppose things do happen? Still it
does no good to worry. Anxiety only dc-
Dletes our resources and unfits us to de^1
effectively with the problems when we hav-
them. Any way you look at it worry is
useless. While I was in Europe during Warld
War II, eombat flyers developed this philo-
sophy: "When you are in the air you will
either be flyinf straight or turning over. If
you are flying straight, there is no cause to
worry. If you are turning over, one of two
things will be true: you will either right the
plane or fall. If you right the plane, there
PARKISTAN, LAND OF
DECISION
It may seem strange that the country
with the world’s largest Moslem population
a "Land of Decision” for a Christian denom-
ination. Yet Parkistan, officialy an Islamic
state, has been designated by the Methodist
Church as one of the four "Lands of Deci-
sion” for the 1960-64 quadrennium.
Parkistan was chosen because the Mos-
lems there are considered more receptive to
a presentation of the Christian gospel than
are those of any other predominately Islamic
country. There is freedom of religion and
there is already a vigorous Christian minority,
eager to witness for Christ.
All Methodist work is located in West
Pakistan. In cooperation with other denomi-
nations ,Methodism maintains an educational
program on the elementary, secondary and
college levels. Because in most Islamic coun-
tries women have fewer opportunities than
men, Christian education of women has been
emphasized. The Metjio^sts cooperate with
other denominations in maintaining the
United Christian Hospital in Lahore, out-
standing for its medical work and for train-
ing of medical personnel.
In recent years the church has started a
program of village developement, literary
work (only 16 percent of West Pakistan’s
people can read), elementary sanitation, fam-1
ily counseling, health, evangelism; all are a
part of the work to better every phase of
village life.
West Pakistan isi a land of great potential
with people of sturdy character. Christ’s
message is respected when it is understool.
The Methodists of Pakistan are moving for-
ward with new energy to speak for Christ.
They look to the Methodists of America as
partners in a "Land of Decision.
is no cause to worry. If you fall, one of two
things is certain: you will either be injured
slightly or injured seriously. If you are
injured slightly, there is no need to worry.
If you are injured seriously, one of awu
things will happen; you will either die or
recover. If you recover, there is no cause to
worry; and if you die, you can’t.”
To me the soverign cure for worry is
religious faith. Christianity is a religion
that helps men to meet the practical prob-
lems of every day. Jesus Christ came not
only to save us from our sins, but also from
our mental torments. So many in our chur-
ches do not seem to realize that. If a man’s
faith is not furnishing him with adequate
spiritual resources for problems like worry,
then there is something the matter with
it.
May I suggest that prayer is an excellent,
way to relieve our problems. St. Paul wrote
to the Philippians: "Be careful for nothing,
but in everything by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving, let your requests be
known to God. And the peace of God, which
passeth all understanding, shall keep your
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”
Phil. 4:6,7).
Why have so many of us never learned
bus to trust God? Mavbe if we knew God
etter. Prehaps we are not very well ac-
uainted with, God, and so are ignorant of
is power and are skeptical of His ability
o help us. Perhaps we have never really
ommitted ourselves to Him. Perhaps pride
:: some sin has stood in the way of our
llowship with Him. and caused us to miss
’■>e blessing of His peace. I believe there
little anxiety in the lives of those who
ave unreservedly yielded themselves to
v'd and reached spiritual maturity.
Let us close with a verse from an old
hymn:
care not today what tomorrow may bring,
If sunshine or shaddow or rain,
know the Lord ruleth o’er everything
And all of my worry is vain.
THE HOWE ENTERPRISE
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