"Aaaaaauugghhh!!!"

"What's wrong?"

"My world is crashing in around me!"

"I'm in the depths of despair! I can't go on!"

"What are you worried about?"

"I just broke a fingernail!"

"Oh, you poor thing."

Have you ever noticed that it seems like just about everyone is worried about something?

"Worry! Worry! Worry!"

"Fret! Fret! Fret!"

"Worry! Worry! Worry!"

"Dread! Dread! Dread!"

"Worry! Worry! Worry!"

Some people have big problems and they try not to show their worry....

"You forgot your parachute."

"No big deal ... doin' okay so far."

... But others like to let the whole world know their petty concerns.

"Oh, look at the time. I just know I'm going to get a parking ticket."

"Oh, not soup again. I might get some on my tie."

"Do you think this spoon is clean enough?"

While some problems may seem insurmountable ...

"Just think! When we get out of this, the movie rights alone will be worth a fortune."

... Most things we worry about will never happen.

"Well what do you know? I thought for sure I was going to flunk."

But in spite of this, it seems that many people just can't get away from worrying.

"Yeah, I'm worried about that."

Jesus, in the Bible, spoke about the futility of 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?" (Matthew 6:25-27)

"But I am eventually going to die. Isn't that something to worry about?"

Jesus also said ...

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him." (Luke 12:4,5)

"Hell? I could go to Hell when I die? Now I am worried!"

But the good news is ...

"God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16)

"God loves us that much? How can I have that eternal life?"

First you must realize that though God loves you, it is your sin that stands in the way of your relationship with God.

"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23).

"All have sinned?"

Yes, and if you want to receive eternal life from God, you must repent ...

"Repent?"

"But unless you repent, you too will all perish." (Luke 13:3)

... And place your total trust in Jesus who died for you and was raised again.

"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'" (John 14:6)

"Trust Jesus?"

When you place your trust in Christ alone to forgive you and give you eternal life, you won't ever have to worry about what will happen when you die.

"I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life." (1 John 5:13).

"I can know for certain?"

"Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for loving me so much that You died on the cross for me. I now repent of my sins and place my total trust in You for eternal life, amen."

"Now that I have Christ in my life, I no longer need to worry about anything. How about you?"

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