Is worrying a sin

[Gregory Thompson]

OK - theology is the study of God

And the Bible has information about God

So, reading your Bible is a sin???


It is written that all unrighteosness is sin. The first words I heard from were, "Read Your Bible." But He has never told me to worry about something. Thought He has often told me to stop worrying about something. I have never heard Him tell me to stop learning more about Him. Though I have had Him tell me that no matter how much I learn about Him I can never full understand the depts of God.

I know that I am really try telling people to listen to God. Others sometimes take that to mean I am against theologians. How can studying about God be a sin. How can we be against that, even tongue and cheek? But if we do want to know more about God, why don't we spend more time just talking to Him?

He asked me to start this thread yesterday. I had already gone over the question with Him, as was explained in the above posts. But if you missed it, this thread is not really about worrying, it is about taking our questions and our thoughts to God.

Look - My brothers pastor had a message. My brother and I had questions about the message. We talked it over and couldn't decide if the pastor was right or wrong. So I took the pastors message to the Lord and asked Him about it. Then He stop intercession just to give me the answer from some who had no idea that I had asked God for the answer.

So this thread is about taking our thoughts, question, and ideas (our worries) to God to get answers.

It's not really about whether we have worries. We have sin in our life. That is the battle. The important thing is that we seek God for advice in all things, including and especially our study of Him (our Theology).


Rm 7:15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do but I am doing the very thing I hate.

The above verse could apply to a number of things. For me it most often seems to apply to my worrying about things. I don't want to worry about things, but do I have enough money, can I get my work done on-time, and I just don't know if this is going right>

Rm 7:30 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

Sometimes the sin dwelling within you is reading the bible .. and not God . perhaps is a better way of putting it . now that you have brought up that verse .

 

[JimB]

Most of my anxiety/worry is not about whether God can but whether I have understood him correctly. If I make financial decisions that wind me up three months behind in my mortgage and car payments I do not worry about whether God can bail me out, I know he can, but my concern is if he will. C.S. Lewis said, "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" My worry is that I am in the latter group. I would say that I have absolute faith in God (at least, I hope); it’s me that I have little trust in … and that has always been the source of my concern.

 

[Frogster]

Paul had daily worries. It's just sort of happens.


2 Cor 11:28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.

 

[Yitzchak]

Most of my anxiety/worry is not about whether God can but whether I have understood him correctly. If I make financial decisions that wind me up three months behind in my mortgage and car payments I do not worry about whether God can bail me out, I know he can, but my concern is if he will. C.S. Lewis said, "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" My worry is that I am in the latter group. I would say that I have absolute faith in God (at least, I hope); it’s me that I have little trust in … and that has always been the source of my concern.

One thing that I miss about my time with the Mennonite Church was the way in which they handled money. I have seen God intervene also , but with the Mennonites he seldom had to. With the Mennonites , the focus was upon stewardship and not upon how prosperous they were. They lived the same whether they had ten million dollars or were working for minimum wage. Their focus was upon determining what the will of God was for how they spent their money and not upon how they could get more money.

The funny thing is that most of them were so prosperous that they would make even a word of faith preacher jealous. Generations of hard work and frugal living had accumulated a lot of equity for some of them.

 

[K2K]

Sometimes the sin dwelling within you is reading the bible .. and not God . perhaps is a better way of putting it . now that you have brought up that verse .

Yeah - at least reading the bible, but not listening to God. That can happen.

 

[K2K]

Paul had daily worries. It's just sort of happens.


2 Cor 11:28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.

It does just sort of happen. Of course Paul also wrote that he did the very thing he did not want to do.

The church is the Lord's, and not really ours. We are just part of it. You would think that knowing that would keep us from being anxious for the church, but it doesn't. We get stressed over all sorts of things. It just sort of happens.

Indeed, sin just sort of happens along and sometimes it takes a bit to catch it's effect on us.

 

[K2K]

Most of my anxiety/worry is not about whether God can but whether I have understood him correctly. If I make financial decisions that wind me up three months behind in my mortgage and car payments I do not worry about whether God can bail me out, I know he can, but my concern is if he will. C.S. Lewis said, "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'" My worry is that I am in the latter group. I would say that I have absolute faith in God (at least, I hope); it’s me that I have little trust in … and that has always been the source of my concern.