IT HAS BEEN WELL SAID THAT THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF THINGS about which nobody ought ever to worry about.

First, we ought never to worry about the things that we can help. The only wise thing to do is to help them. Did you ever lie in bed and shiver when you did not have quite enough cover, instead of getting up and finding another blanket? If you ever did, you can remember that your worry did not get you warm. This sounds trite, but there were thousands of people that lay awake last night worrying about things that they could have as readily remedied as you could have cured your worry by getting another cover.

Second, we ought never to worry about the things that we cannot help. This does not mean that we are to grieve over our real sorrows and our loses.

God never expected that we should live tearless lives. But it does mean that we are not to be fretful and feverish and anxious. If you cannot in any way help in a situation, then accept it as part of God’s plan for your life. You will certainly not help matters by worrying.

Frank Boreham, in one of his essays, emphasizes the wisdom of shutting the gate, once we have passed through it. Some leave it open and are always slipping back through again. Happy is the man who can shut the gate.

If a mistake has been made that you can correct, correct it. But if you cannot correct it, there is but one thing to do and that is to turn your back upon it. We must not allow ourselves to anxiously desire what we cannot have. We must shut the gate on it.

As a speaker, if I see a man asleep in my audience, I will wake him if I can. But if I cannot, I will stop looking in his direction and forget about him. If I did not, he would worry me.

Never, therefore, worry about the things that you can help or about the things you cannot help. It is useless.  ---  Clovis G. Chappell

Anxiety springs from the desire that things should happen as we wish rather than as God wills.  --- Anonymous

“*Don’t fret and worry --- it only leads to harm. *Give all your worries to Him, because He cares about you. *Do not worry about anything. But let God know all of our needs and desires and thank Him in your prayers. The peace of God, that is too great to be understood, will guard your hearts and your minds in union with Jesus Christ.” PSALM 37:8 LB; 1 PETER 5:7; PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7

YOU HAVE TRUSTED HIM IN A FEW THINGS and He has not failed you. Trust Him now for everything, and see if He does not do for you exceeding abundantly above all that you cold ever have asked or thought.

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult that these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?  --- H.W. Smith (adapted)