What’s on your mind? Are exams looming. Do your friends seem to be moody with you all the time? Do you not have any friends? There are so many things that we can worry about. It’s doesn’t change any when you get older either. There was an old song with the line “don’t worry, be happy” in it. It always seemed a bit sickly and unreal to me, until tonight. I’ve just spent a great hour or so, with a mate just chilling here at my place. My mate said the coolest thing ever. He said that he had just decided to stop worrying about stuff and leave it to God. How cools that, he has just decided to get on with life and rely on God. Not only that, God has started responding and things have started changing for the better. Brilliant, how great is that? But this isn’t by accident, because my mate also lives his life like Paul is suggesting here in 1 Timothy. He prays about everything, and I mean everything. He prays just like Paul says. He Prays every way he knows how, for everyone he knows. He prays walking down the street, he prays on his bed, he prays before he meets someone for coffee. My mate even prays silently when he’s talking to me sometimes, I can see it in his eyes. So when he says that he has decided not to worry, it’s not some airy fairy, unreal, Pollyanna type attitude. He has decided not to worry, because he knows that he prays to a great big God, who can answer his prayers and put right the things he is worried about. Now that’s a worry free prayer filled life. That’s living life to the full.
