Worry. [ Matthew 6 v34 ]

D.Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote the following,from his studies on the sermon on the mount./Worry is always a failure to grasp and apply our faith.Faith does not work automatically.....you have to apply it.Faith does not grow automatically either;we must learn to talk to our faith and to ourselves,as the Psalmist in Psalm 42.Look at him turning to himself and saying,'Why art thou cast down,O my soul?' That is the way to make your faith grow......
You must question yourself about your faith.You must ask your soul why it is cast down,and wake it up.The child of God talks to himself,he reasons with himself; he shakes himself and reminds himself of himself of his faith.
,and immediately his faith begins to grow. Do not imagine that because you
became a Christian all you have do is to go on mechanically.Your faith does not grow mechanically,you have to attend to it.To use our Lords analogy,you have to dig around and about it,and pay attention to it.Then you will find it will grow.
                                         A prayer.
Dear Lord help us to work at our faith,and help us to grow in faith, in Jesus name Amen.