Why The Bible Tells Us Not To Worry

Continued from "Worthless Worry":
When God tells us in the Bible not to worry, it isn't a suggestion. It's a command. Worry and /or anxiety is specifically mentioned twenty-five times in the New Testament alone as something we should avoid. Why is the Bible so adamant about our avoiding fear and worry? Because God knows worry short-circuits our relationship with him. It fixes our eyes on our situation rather than on our Savior. Our mind disperses the problem into billions of fear droplets, obscuring God's face. Taking our anxiety to the Lord is often the last thing we think of when we are spiritually fogged in. And yet only the "Son" has the power to disperse it. Without him, one fear leads to another, and our lives slow to a painful crawl.