Advice for Women on Worry
As women, we are all are prone to worry. We worry about family, work, health…the truth is we worry about almost every aspect of our lives. So how do we stop?
It doesn’t matter how old you are, women worry. We worry about whether we are a good enough wife, if we are meeting the needs of our children well, if our home is neat enough, or if we are working hard enough. We worry about whether we are faithful enough, read the Bible enough, are healthy enough, what people say about us, and what we wear. The truth is we worry about just about every aspect of our lives.
Yet, the Bible tells us not to worry. “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? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own (Matt. 6: 25-34).
As the Bible instructs us not to worry, it also provides sage advice to help us live our daily lives with God by our side. "Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Eph. 6:13-17).
Just Between Us understand how the enemy wages war on our thoughts every single day and how that battleground can lead us to worry and insecurity. For this reason, we have compiled articles that provide practical biblical advice on a variety of topics from marriage and parenting, work and stress, health and emotional needs, ministry and evangelism, and more. Pick a few that apply to the needs you currently have in your life and begin applying the ideas they put forth, and watch your faith grow!
~ By Ronnie Wendt